US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry
Hard to believe, even though Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris agreement and destroying environmental regulations… Canada is still a laggard even compared to them.
The fossil fuel sector, from coal mines to gas power plants, employed around 900,000 people in the US in 2015-16, government figures show. But Lucien Georgeson and Mark Maslin at University College London found that over the same period this was vastly outweighed by the green economy, which provided nearly 9.5 million jobs, or 4 per cent of the working age population. The pair defined the green economy broadly, covering everything from renewable energy to environmental consultancy.