On 2/12/2013 5:40 AM, martin schiller wrote: > Rather would that the agency charged with administering the national > resource begin charging the full social cost for the extraction of > resources and apply that revenue to restoring the environment - many > entry level jobs, for organized labor. It should be the cost of doing > business, and the people can be brought together around that idea, > rather than divided. It should be much easier to sell the idea of the > government as a super-corporation, with the citizen a shareholder, > than to argue for preserving environment at the expense of industrial > jobs.
We definitely need to rid the planet of a great many 'industrial jobs' that are profoundly eco-destructive. You'd agree, for instance, that a transition/'conversion' from the arms industry to peacetime activity is urgent. And you'd probably agree with the people at Cornell in NYC, or Million Climate Jobs in the UK and SA? They are all linking labour and climate in a very progressive 'just transition' kind of way... http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/projects/climate/index.html http://climatejobs.org.za/ http://www.campaigncc.org/greenjobs _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
