Posts Tagged ‘Economy’

The recovery

The economic recovery is going to be painfully, painfully slow. That’s all there is to it. You don’t need fancy equations, or smart economists, or even a crystal ball to know this. All you need is this one graph, courtesy of NPR:

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The green economy – it’s not about climate change

People are becoming more skeptical about climate change. Much of the change has to do with the failing economy, although the recent embarrassing emails from several scientists hasn’t helped win the public over. Coupled with this increased skepticism (which is wholly disconnected from the reality of climate change) is a decrease in focus on the so-called “green economy”, those jobs that will appear with the shift to a carbon-neutral, less-wasteful economy. This is terrible news, because the green economy is not just about the environment or climate change. It has far more importance.

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