Inequality Is Holding Back The Recovery -NYT Opinionator

[NoOneMan]

3. So the production of greenie stuff doesn't take energy & resources?

Sure, you can create jobs making green infrastructure, but that production will contribute to our precarious situation. These products roll off the line with "carbon debt".

1) At what point will the reduction in the carbon intensity of our energy (presuming we ever get there after the massive amount of production a "green shift" requires) translate to an actual reduction in global emissions? How do we know this point will ever come, especially if it equalizes and increases wealth across the nation, thereby increasing aggregate consumption and standards of living?

2) By expanding the net available energy with green sources, how do we know our dirty sources will not still be used or exported to be used elsewhere?