Jeff Goodell Jobs Quotations

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.

The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.