Greens were doing some chest-thumping this week after a new study came out that said California led the nation in 2012 in creation of green jobs.
“Environmental Entrepreneurs tracks the creation of green jobs on a monthly basis. The 2012 wrap-up found firms announced the creation of 110,000 green jobs last year. About 26,000 of those jobs were in California.”But that’s a puny number by almost any objective standard....
Meanwhile, let’s look at the employment numbers in North Dakota, where leaders emphasize brown jobs — created by the fracking boom — not subsidized, corporate crony green jobs. From 2010 to 2012, this tiny little state went from 370,000 employed residents to 421,000 employed residents — a stunning 14 percent increase with few parallels in recent U.S. history. Equivalent growth in the California workforce would mean 2 million new jobs....
Consider that California easily could be the Saudi Arabia of the First World, but that the majority party that controls the state thinks this is a bad thing.
