Should We Pollute Lots More If It Creates A Few More Jobs?

[DanieRains]

Cutting regulations can create jobs.

How many premature deaths directly caused by increased pollution is one job worth?

How many burned acres is a job worth?

It would take a real reporter to ask those questions to any politician.

But who am I? Just someone from Fire Hell. Methow Valley WA.

I am sick of Trump bragging about unemployment rates when he is literally murdering the Earth cutting regulations.

[safeinOhio]

1. Or can Green Jobs save the planet and provide

full employment? Not a zero sum game.

[Volaris]

2. Within 20 years trying to save coal jobs will be tantamount to

Trying to save the buggy whip making industry.

And that has NOTHING to do with politics and EVERYTHING to do with the GOPs vaunted Free Market (which means the coal workers are just shit out of luck). And if they wanna be obstinate and NOT vote for the things we want that will actually help them survive the change and thrive into the future without those jobs, then they're on their own and that does suck, but I'm tired of listening to them whine about it.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Might Be Simpler

Environmental protection already CREATED jobs.
Mid-size & large companies employ batallions of safety & environmental professionals.
Systems in place to abate emissions were built by, and operated by typical working folks, many of them union.
Regulations cost fewer jobs than they create, without even counting the masses of federal & state workers enforcing administrative laws.
The only thing deregulation does is save individual companies operating cash, but the macroeconomic impact of those people now not having a job is a net negative.

[abqtommy]

4. NO!

[Klaralven]

5. Why not? The planet is totally screwed anyway.

Population will go from the current 7.8 billion to 9.7 billion by 2050 and 11 billion by 2100.

Current GDP/capita is about $17K, compared with the US at about $60K. China's increased greatly over the past 30 years and it is now about average.

If India and Southeast Asia manage to replicate China's feat by 2050 that will add hundreds of millions to the global middle class and vastly increase resource usage and waste.