Green Jobs In High Demand
Renewable energy has started to really pick over the past few decades. With the high growth in the research and development of these new alternative sources of energy, there will be a need for more scientist, researchers, machine works and various other jobs. It is predicted that 4.2 million new environmentally friendly “green” jobs will be created over the next 30 years, almost 10% of the job growth over that period.
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That is a huge number of jobs that could be created if we continue in the right direction. There will probably be a loss of jobs if we continue to move towards renewable energy, jobs will start to decrease in traditional dirty energy sources like gas and coal and move towards new renewable sources like wind, solar, geothermal and others. It is refreshing to see that such a large number of jobs will be created not only to manufacture and maintain the new equipment, but academic positions in science and engineering will be created to research ways to makes these new energy sources more efficient.
How the Green Jobs will be Created
There are several assumptions that need to happen in order to reach the 4.2 million green jobs that include:
- 40% of our electricity consumption will be coming from renewable energy sources; 1/2 of which will be coming from wind and solar energy.
- Buildings becoming more energy efficient to reduce their electricity use by 35%.
- A shift from traditional fuels to bio-fuels and ethanol.
I hope that our country is able to surpass the first 2 assumptions, but reaching those numbers would be a great achievement regardless. I am not in agreement with the last one as many of you may know because ethanol and other bio-fuels are not environmentally friendly and are only temporary solutions to the problem. Along with that, they only raise the prices of food for our country. The right direction for our country would be to move more to renewable energy sources and have more electric cars or begin to use hydrogen for vehicles.
Lets just hope that our country capitalizes on using clean energy sources to not only be a more eco-friendly country, but to boost our economy and raise our job growth.
