The Washington Post reports:
Some European environmentalists say that going green might create fewer jobs than they had once hoped. That gloomier assessment is echoed in the United States, where the Obama administration’s first-term emphasis on the possibilities of green jobs has largely given way to a second-term focus on nurturing a manufacturing boom through cheaper fossil fuel energy.
There is a good recipe for job creation: mobilise people to dig new canals and equip them with spoons instead of shovels.