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The Green Collar Economy
Van Jones
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
HarperOne
October 2008
On Sale: October 7, 2008
256 pages ISBN: 0061650757 EAN: 9780061650758 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar
Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and
viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the
country—the failing economy and our devastated environment.
From a distance, it appears that these two problems are
separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes
unmistakable. In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and
political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that
both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The
economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil,
natural gas, and coal—all fast-diminishing nonrenewable
resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy
climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With
costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not
only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases
they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make
clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line:
we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill
and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas. Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest
our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into
the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition
deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary
people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting
energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S.
economy out of its present death spiral. Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book Silent Spring was the
pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now,
rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment
and the economy, Van Jones's The Green Collar Economy
delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new
century.
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