Obama's Labor Day Speech

The speech Obama, had he been a sincere and real Democrat, should have given:

In The Future, The Only Jobs Left Will Be Green

Last year, the NY Times reported, “In the energy sector alone, the deployment of new technologi­es, like wind and solar power, has the potential to support 20 million jobs by 2030 and trillions of dollars in revenue, analysts estimate.”

Averting catastroph­ic climate change will generate far more jobs by 2050, as we must deploy more than 10,000 GW of clean energy (see here).  Failing to avert catastroph­ic climate change will probably generate more jobs, especially post-2030, since we still have to make the transition off fossil fuels, but on top of that we will have to have to make probably 10 times as much investment in sea walls, levees, relocating people and cities, and the like (see Real adaptation is as politicall­y tough as real mitigation­, but much more expensive and not as effective in reducing future misery).

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost