
Originally Posted by
ragingpup
Where do you get the evidence that it will cost 5 million jobs? I can see that it will result in a significant reskilling of jobs in the fossil fuel energy secor but most research on this indicates that the development of a green industry replacement infrastructure will actually create between 250K and 750K new jobs net. That's from LSE and relates to the UK only. I can see that the ILO forecasts that globally 6 million jobs would be lost but offsets this with forecast that 24 million would be created in green development.
So I can't see the evidence of such a gloomy prediction. Where do you see it?