Green energy is the modern "Broken Window"
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John Goodell studied literature at Berkeley, then got an M.F.A. at Columbia. He has edited Zyzzyva, a literary magazine in San Francisco, and been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Pretty impressive. None of that qualifies him as a climate scientist or economist. So it’s surprising that web searches yield hundreds of solemn, even pious, invocations of Goodell’s economic wisdom: In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
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