Green-sky proposal
Tackle air-quality issues and you tackle health-care reform
The drag of poor air quality on the economy is mounting, costing the state of California alone close to $30 billion per year and, if my own reckoning is somewhat accurate, about six percent of total U.S. gross domestic product, or about $700 billion, a figure that should sound pretty familiar.
China, which just this year surpassed the U.S. in carbon emissions, or pollution, on a total tonnage basis, figures its poor air quality costs it 5.8% of GDP ...
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It's time we recognized that environmental quality is the new industrial/economic niche we've been looking for: tie the overhaul of the failed automotive industry to new jobs and new investments in alternative technologies. We're already at the point where everything we know is wrong. How 'bout we use this crisis to expedite our leap into the next--the Green--Industrial Revolution?