Sometimes academics miss reality. I remember attending a PPIC event in the mid 2000s where an academic presented tried to argue that housing prices were based in reality.

But for the sake of argument, let’s assume that green jobs will continue to grow inside California as a result of favorable government policies/subsidies. At the rate of growth you describe, how long it will take to create green jobs for the 2 million plus Californians who are out-of-work?

Also, who will pay for the efficiency gains of which you speak? I’ve heard from several sources that electricity rates are expected to increase 60% as a result of AB 32 programs. Some of this money will return to some ratepayers through conservation incentives, but it seems clear there will be both winners and losers in our brave new green world.

David

California’s $3.3 BILLION in clean tech adventure capital funding accounted for 57% of the nation’s total last year — each $100 million in venture capital funding helps create 2,700 jobs.

Between 1995 and 2008, California’s new economy busineses increased 45 percent in umber and 36 percent in employment. Green job growth exceeded the state’s total of 13 percent over this period. Between 1/07 and 1/08, green jobs grew five percent while total jobs dropped one percent. We already have 44,000 jobs in 3,000 companies. That’s why companies ranging from Google and Waste Management and Virgin Atlantic to the member companies of the Small Business Alliance support AB 32.

And let’s not forget that the NFL and the New York Giants did _nothing_ to help the great Plaxico Burress — who won the Super Bowl for the Giants 2 years ago — was jailed for non-victim, non-crime, when he was wounded when his own gun went off accidentally. (NFL players commonly are the victims of crimes; Redskins safety Sean Taylor was murdered _in his own home_ in November 2007. They need guns to defend themselves. So do you.)

Boycott the NFL!