The Climate Case for a Jobs Guarantee

(Bloomberg) — Say it’s the very near future, and you’re a worker put out of work in the declining oil industry. You’re highly educated, and you’ve been well-compensated, but as it becomes clear that burning more oil will wreck Earth and civilization, the stuff you make gets properly priced to reflect that reality, and quickly your industry ceases to exist. Good for the planet, but you’re out of a job! What to do?

You go to the local job center, which tells you the U.S. Department of Energy is sponsoring a public-private company to build direct-air-capture factories. Now instead of […]

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