Poll: Action on climate will heat up economy, jobs

[jefferson_dem]

Poll: Action on climate will heat up economy, jobs
AP Poll: Greater share of public believes action on climate will help economy and create jobs

By Dina Cappiello, Associated Press Writer
On 3:08 am EST, Tuesday December 15, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It's a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama's economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican claims that the actions would kill jobs.

In an Associated Press-Stanford University poll, 40 percent said U.S. action to slow global warming in the future would create jobs. Slightly more, 46 percent, said it would boost the economy.

By contrast, less than a third said curbing climate change would hurt the economy and result in fewer jobs, a message Republican members of Congress plan to take to an international global warming conference in Copenhagen this week.

"They're wrong," Ron Classen of Seattle, who participated in the poll, said of the GOP stance. "People are going to be shifted from one job to another," said Classen, a self-described fan of environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore.

The survey's results seem to boost Democratic efforts to curb global warming pollution and sign on to an international agreement to reduce heat-trapping gases, despite the concerns many Americans have about the recession and the high unemployment rate.

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[Deja Q]

1. Right now, it's shifting from a good job to having no job.

That isn't helping anybody.

If curbing climate change means using better built computers free of as many toxic components as possible and purchasing a higher-MPG car, people are doing all that too. And more.

We're doing our part.

[Clio the Leo]

2. Kick NT

[Armstead]

3. We'll find a way to fuck that one up too

Preediction -- Republicans will scare the shit out of people with their usual stuff about how environmental action will wreck the economy.

Democrats will be divided. Some will support real change and sell it well. But they will be overwhelmed by the "pragmatists" and Conservadems, who will also take marching orders from their corporate masters.

Republicans will thus be sending a clear message. Democrats will send mixed and muddled messages and fight among themselves.

Ultimately the environment will be branded as the enemy. And in a "compromise" any new legislation will be based on what the existing Energy Lobby wants. Oil companies will be given complete control over alternative energy.

[Peacetrain]

4. K&R...good to read