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Re:U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory by kbutler on Thursday May 13, 2021 @09:37AM (#27141910)
Similar. It's more an example of the apocryphal economist anecdote - "if it's jobs you want, you should have them dig with spoons instead of shovels." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/

"More jobs" for the same production of goods/energy is less efficient and produces less total prosperity. You're better off using the most efficient means of production, and letting the other people produce something else of value.

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Re:U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory by engineer_22 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @09:45AM (#27141995)
Well put. Nicely articulated.

Perhaps... The moneyed participants in the Renewable Energy industry are economic frontrunners - preparing for what they see is an inevitable future of expensive hydrocarbons. While the Green Jobs are less efficient today, they speculate they will become more efficient tomorrow, and make them all rich. But this is hardly a marketable proposition to the millions of taxpayers who are being asked to stabilize their less-efficient market offerings, and so baser arguments are made.

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