Job Security Unstable? Renewable Energy is Looking for Employees. [2]
Author Jeff Goodell's [7] quote, "[a] full-blown push for clean energy could unleash a jobs bonanza that would make what happened in Silicon Valley in the 1990s look like a bake sale," rings true when you look at yesterday's job report [8]published by the UN.
The report found that solving global warming has resulted in world wide employment gains.
Check out these numbers:
- By the year 2020, Germany will have more jobs in the field of environmental technologies than in its entire automotive industry.
- In the US alone, the environmental industry in 2005 generated more than 5.3 million jobs.
- In China, 150,000 jobs were created in solar heating, a sector with sales revenues in 2005 of $2.5 billion.
In contrast, Solve Climate [9]reports that "the number of individuals currently employed in the coal industry in the US: about 80,000 and shrinking."
TAGS: Canada [10], climate change [11], Emily Murgatroyd [12], employment [13], ethanol [14], europe [15], global warming [16], renewable energy [17], solar power [18], Stephen Harper [19], Stephen Harper [20]
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