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Jones has a way with a slogan and a talent for cutting to the core of an argument that some environmentalists (Al Gore, for instance) don't always possess. But while Jones has become the face of the new green-collar economy, he's hardly the only environmentalist pushing the idea. The concept is gaining steam because when it comes to climate change, simply protecting the environment is not enough. The only way the environmental movement can grow beyond a relatively small elite is if it meets broad, basic economic needs, not just green ones. "We need to go from...
...that to happen, however, we need serious government policy: smart subsidies for alternative energy and green building, retraining for green-collar jobs, more research money for clean tech - and hopefully a tax on carbon. Both Presidential candidates have gestured at this - though Sen. Barack Obama, who has pledged to spend $150 billion over 10 years on clean tech, is ready to do more...
...this once-in-a-generation economic crisis hit. Now, with hundreds of billions of dollars in government money being shoveled towards the financial sector, with the economy in free-fall, with once-record oil prices dropping, surely the last thing we can afford is more spending to prop up green dreams...
Jones says we can and we should. This isn't the time to abandon the green push - not just because carbon emissions continue to rise faster than ever or because scientists grow more concerned daily about the fate of the planet. Let's even put aside a politically fraught cap-and-trade program for the moment. A green stimulus package - a Green Deal, perhaps - could not only put the unemployed back to work in the middle of a harsh recession, but also lay the building blocks for a new, more sustainable American economy, one prepared to compete in a future...
Members of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee collected pledges from young voters who promised to prioritize climate change issues in the upcoming presidential election, as part of the national Power Vote campaign that seeks to mobilize one million youth voters to support green goals...