The economic impact banter from the silly and misinformed masses needs to be placed in the Manure pile it belongs in. Likely, this country would see great gains in multiple sectors as it became green:
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- In the US alone, the environmental industry in 2005 generated more than 5.3 million jobs - ten times the number in the US pharmaceutical industry.
- The renewable energy programmes in Germany and Spain are merely ten years old but have already created several hundred thousand jobs.
- The Indian city of Delhi is introducing new eco-friendly compressed natural gas buses that will create an additional 18,000 new jobs. - The ethanol programme in Brazil has created half a million jobs and its bio-diesel programme is specifically designed to benefit hundreds of thousands of mostly poor smallholder farmers.
- By the year 2020, Germany will have more jobs in the field of environmental technologies than in its entire automotive industry.
- In Europe, a 20 per cent increase in energy efficiency would create about a million jobs. The same applies in emerging and developing countries.
- In solar heating, China is the global leader. With combined sales revenues of about $2.5 billion in 2005, more than 1,000 Chinese manufacturers employed more than 150,000 people. Future estimates of installed capacity mean employment could grow substantially in this area.
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ENN: Silver Lining to Climate Change - Green Jobs
Perhaps its time for these people to find a new angle...if only to save some level of credibility.