*The Climate Emergency Isn't Just a Crisis, It's a Crime.* The fossil fuel companies are the mobsters that organized the crime.

Clean energy makes more jobs than dirty energy, but "creating jobs" is used as an excuse for subsidizing the latter.

A heavily subsidized Shell plant is an example of this.

I have to point out, though, that employment is a secondary consideration when the survival of civilization and the ecosphere is at stake. What would be the sense in paying people to poison our future, even if it did make lots of jobs?

It would be better to create jobs by paying them to move a big pile of gravel from one lot to another, with shovels. At least that work wouldn't do any harm.