Just, wondering, who is going to be the ones to force them?
Save the Climate by Improving Jobs
The most recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change experts have made two things clear: One, any hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change requires dramatically reducing the use of fossil fuels. And two, doing this is a political challenge, not a scientific one. Technologies that can reduce emissions exist now; what is absent is the political will to do so. The deep political opposition to reducing fossil-fuel reliance is the direct result of decades of efforts by the fuel industry to sow climate denial, feed misinformation to the public, influence elected officials and “greenwash” its efforts.
Political, huh? Surprise?
But opposition to an energy transition also comes from workers in the fossil-fuel economy and communities that depend on it. They realize that moving away from such fuel use could end their jobs and remove the industry base that pays for crucial local needs such as public education. If society can understand and mitigate these consequences, a strategy called a “just transition” by labor researchers, it can reduce worker opposition to change while also providing needed support to workers and regions that have relied on fossil-fuel dollars.
What if they don’t want to change jobs, to learn to do something different? What if they like what they do? And, the answer to force means the Government will force them. Which is interesting, since the same leftists call everyone else Fascists and authoritarians.
Yet in the face of all this opposition, we are making progress. At the state level, Illinois and New York legislators recently passed laws that require higher wages on every renewable energy project over a certain size. The laws tie general wage standards to renewable energy development. This ensures the jobs created can provide family-sustaining wages and economic security, and it breaks a pattern of low-wage work in the renewable energy sector.
Which raises costs to the consumers. Econ 101.
Why can’t these people just mind their own f’ing business?
LOL. These green fascist monsters are abusing the working class by increasing their pay!!
They must be stopped!!
Back in 1985, when I was working for a construction company, I loved it when I was assigned to a project occurring in the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, because it meant I had to be paid the “prevailing wage.” But “prevailing wages” meant that contractors had to bid higher, because their labor costs would be higher.
That, of course, is what the left are doing again. The distinguished Mr Dowd mocks that, “These green fascist monsters are abusing the working class by increasing their pay!!”, but these projects must be paid for. If the states mandate higher wages for “renewable energy development,” those projects will cost more. That means the “renewable energy” will cost the public more, because those costs must be recouped, or the “renewable energy project” will either be a loss, or investors will not invest because they know they won’t make a profit.
Dear Elwood:
Before I hung up my slide rule I was trained in the realities of fixing things.
Got a big problem? Break it down to all its parts and then start fixing what you can fix.. and lo and behold… many times the big problem becomes a small problem or maybe even goes away.
So I ask. Why doesn’t the Lefies posit doing some things to fix this??
I mean real things.
Too much CO2? Plant trees while search for a carbon sink that is cheap and will work.
Worried about the sea levels? Build sea walls and levees and install pumps.
Hurricanes and storms tossing you about? Do some research on how we reduce EACH incident as it occurs.
Elwood? Mankind has always had those that do and those that write and those who teach.
We’re out of balance. We need more doing and less writing and teaching.
At our previous home, we planted several trees: two miniature Alberta spruces, an arborvitae, two flowering cherry trees — one of which failed — a dogwood, a Japanese maple, and finally, a red sunset maple, less than six feet tall when we planted it in the spring of 2012. When we moved away, in July of 2017, it was somewhere around 14 feet tall, and a pass by the place in December of 2021 showed it to be perhaps 17 feet tall.
Here on the farm, since July of 2017, we have planted a peach tree and four apple trees, which, sadly, aren’t thriving, probably because the water table is a bit high in the field we planned to make an orchard,
a pin oak, an ornamental pear tree, a maple tree that was just growing as a week when I transplanted it at three feet tall and is now at least 12 feet, a Japanese maple — I love having foliage around that breaks the monotony of all green — and a fig tree.
Those are all doing decently, since our ‘yard’ is about a foot higher than what we thought would be the orchard.
The farm field is full of corn this year, and of course there is a vegetable garden, all helping to consume CO2.
Mr. Lewis,
In fact, these remediations ARE being done… sea walls, pumps, tree planting.
How to reduce individual hurricanes and tornadoes? Good luck.
Ahh, as the good old “communist nut not a Communist Elwood P. Dowd would say: They don’t need an “assault weapon” or 30 rounds.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1544700948164972546
Blacks are leavin the democrats in droves. Droves!
Mr White,
Correct, one does not need an assault weapon and 30 round magazines, unless one is interested in killing a lot of humans.
But don’t worry, the Supremes have your back. We actually recommend that Black Americans arm themselves to protect themselves from coming white nationalist violence.
Fossil fuel jobs are heavily unionized
Renewables? Not so much
Have you asked yourself why that is? Because manufacturing solar panels is automated where it can be, and the labor to build solar panels is not very specialized. Companies can replace striking workers far more easily when their jobs don’t require much training.
You also wrote:
But if the workers in renewable energy projects were unionized, what they produced would become more expensive, and teh price of renewable energy would increase.
The price of renewable energy keeps going down
Consumers benefit
Even if true, the reliability is still horrible, and there are no storage solutions.
They can’t. It’s part of being a liberal.
Sharks gotta swim, bats gotta fly…
Part of those states’ effort to make everything more expensive!
Congrats.
Climate change deniers super happy that fossil fuel companies can charge Americans the world market price for gasoline
Also seem pretty content with skyrocketing electric prices from fossil fuel price increases.
American fossil fuel companies cheering the Arab and Russians controlling OUR price
Renewables-mandate their use and now mandate their wages. Too bad they can’t mandate reliability… Isn’t this what happened when we went from horses to gas-powered automobiles……?
Johnny-get a clue…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/gateway-pundit-reported-back-december-biden-regime-now-strategic-petroleum-reserves-china/