Jobs
If you want to win an election, be sure to use the words job creation. And if you want to lose it, talk about climate change. At least, that’s how it used to be. Now, research cited by McKinsey & Company shows that government spending on either energy efficiency or renewable energy is likely to create three times as many jobs as the same investment in fossil fuels. So why do governments still spend $5 trillion every year in fossil fuel subsidies worldwide? The most plausible explanation is corporate lobbying by coal, oil and gas companies – a form of state capture.
— Wayne Visser
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