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When Emissions Disappear, So Do Jobs

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Jobs are good. A decent standard of living is good. Both generate emissions. Let’s get over it.

I’ve written a new column for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Titled When Emissions Disappear, So Do Jobs, it has been published:

  • on Frontier’s website
  • in the Financial Post – the business section of Canada’s National Post
  • at NEWZ4U.net
  • and linked to from Republic of Mining.com

We may, some day, inhabit a world in which higher carbon dioxide emissions are not indicators of human well-being. But that is not the world we live in now.

This is the hard part about being a grownup. We have to put aside fairy tales and confront reality. Policies that ignore reality are wasteful – and are therefore the exact opposite of sustainable.

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During my research for this column, I generated the above graph in Excel. (The numbers were cut-and-pasted from the

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