Now More Than Ever: Invest in a Green Economy

It's more important than ever to invest in a green economy creating green jobs and protecting the air and water that keep us healthy. As President Obama calls for fiscal restraint in domestic spending, a coalition of public interest groups and conservation and wildlife organizations make the case for what Congress can do to create jobs while strengthening key environmental programs all while cutting wasteful spending by nearly $20 billion per year.

Their Green Budget recommendations to Congress call for an end to tax breaks for polluters, investment in green jobs, increased support for clean energy and greater protection for public lands and oceans.

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• clean energy
• energy
• renewable energy
• green energy
• Congress
• federal spending
• green budget
• green jobs
• green economy
• President Obama
• wasteful spending

[EconomicsCafe]

@thefutureisvegan

Look at your power bill, you are paying for this already. Yes, the carbon credit ordeal is a poor scheme that serves only those on top of their industry. A carbon tax could be used to fund green jobs, but how much of every dollar taxed goes to fund this movement... 0.20... 0.25.

Private industry is the key.

[EconomicsCafe]

Wind and solar energy require mining of mass amounts of rare earths, though your heart is in the right place, I fear you don't understand that this "renewable" energy relies on elements from the earth which are not renewable. You can't save the world without a lot of destruction.

[thefutureisvegan]

Disposing of an Emission Trading Scheme and directly taxing carbon will provide funds for this, be "real" in terms of an "across the economy" effect, get rid of loopholes which permit businesses to hide Carbon Credits in an endless "money-go-round" or create phony "carbon sinks" in the third world which destroy old growth forest. A Carbon Tax would provide funding for boosting green energy, jobs training/re-training and shielding the disadvantaged from any cost burdens in the transitional years.

[cshwang1026]

very friendly and smoothly video.