Job Security Unstable? Renewable Energy is Looking for Employees.

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Author Jeff Goodellโ€™s quote, โ€œ[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,โ€ rings true when you look at yesterdayโ€™s job report 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 reports that โ€œthe number of individuals currently employed in the coal industry in the US: about 80,000 and shrinking.โ€

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