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Top 10 Economic Benefits of Converting to Solar Energy

Sunrun

Wide scale adoption of solar and other renewable energy must continue so we can address the negative societal and economic impacts of dirty fossil fuels.10 But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. In 2010, the industry hired 93,000 people.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. forests between 2006 and 2010, five times more impactful than fires, land-use change, insects, drought, and wind damage combined. coal burning.”.

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To succeed politically, Poilievre should embrace robust climate measures

Clean Energy Canada

Setting aside for a moment the fact that most Canadian voters want their government to both act on climate change and prepare Canada’s economy to compete in a world moving away from fossil fuels, there’s another reason to pay attention to the global economic transition toward a cleaner economy: self-preservation.

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Tom Steyer: A Pandemic Is No Time to Pander to the Fossil Fuel Industry

GreenTechMedia

There has been a long-raging dispute in private investing circles over whether investing in fossil fuel energy is either wise from a societal viewpoint or profitable from a private one. Think: opioids, or ozone-depleting chemicals, or leaded-gasoline, or asbestos, or DDT. Which brings up the history of investing in energy.