What exactly are green jobs?

It is a feel good label that really means nothing! Similar to green cleaners! Just a bad if not worse for the environment, but helps with the marketing end!

As a follow up to Didier and his reference to the "Broken Window Fallacy", I feel lots of environmental programs are susceptible to the Law of Unintended Consequences". I will even go one step further in that I feel a lot of environmentals don't even care about unintended consequences if they feel the primary objective is "correct".

The latest example of the broken window fallacy, that's what. http://www.scragged.com/articles/green-jobs-are-broken-windows.aspx

I am pretty sure green jobs are any jobs which can not exist in the free market. In effect, the government must take "green" from your pocket and redistribute it to some one doing a job that no body would other wise be willing to pay for. Thus anything like building wind farms, bio fuels, solar panels, cash for clunkers, and other garbage that no one would otherwise be willing to pay for.

A "green job" is one that is 'created' with heavy taxpayer welfare/subsidies also resulting in the loss of more 'non-green' jobs than are created by the 'green-jobs-scheme'. Bottom line: For those who still have jobs, their taxes will sky-rocket, and for those who are the recipients of welfare-supported 'green jobs', they can take pride in the fact that they are contributing to the National debt/runaway inflation..... AND rising unemployment.

Green jobs are positions in companies that get subsidies from the government -a.k.a. by us taxpayers!

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A green job, also called a green-collar job is, according to the United Nations Environment Program, "work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and development (R&D), administrative, and service activities that contribute(s) substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality. Specifically, but not exclusively, this includes jobs that help to protect ecosystems and biodiversity; reduce energy, materials, and water consumption through highefficiency strategies; de-carbonize the economy; and minimize or altogether avoid generation of all forms of waste and pollution."

In simple words a green collar job is one that benefits the environment. For example, you will find a green job in a company engaged in renewable energy, or recycling. It can also be about conservation of the natural resources like water. You may have heard of green plumbing which is gaining a lot of scope. For those with conservation on their mind visit http://www.bewaterwise.com/tips01.html