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>If harnessed properly, a mass-switch to renewables could generate millions of jobs There are excellent reasons why it shouldn't. Jobs are a cost of doing some
by stevetrewick 10y ago
>If harnessed properly, a mass-switch to renewables could generate millions of jobs
There are excellent reasons why it shouldn't. Jobs are a cost of doing something, not a benefit.
- simonh 10y agoExactly, currently UK unemployment is at an 11 year low. The employment rate is the highest it's been since 1971. We should be looking at how to upgrade people to better, higher paying jobs in internationally competitive sectors that increase national wealth, not downgrading to low skilled manufacturing and physical labor.
- toyg 10y agoI don't see any appetite to move to an economy not based on mass-employment - not among current elites and certainly not among the current UK government.
- stevetrewick 10y agoThe actual economy doesn't give a fig for the appetites of 'the current elites' - whatever that means, but that's not the point, the point is that it is bad to move to an energy supply model that creates a large number of additional jobs because that means it is likely to be more expensive than the current one. It also carries the opportunity cost of the value that labour could add by doing stuff other than keeping the lights on for the rest of us.