Comments on: “Grassroots” Movement Demands Justice for Big Oil http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/10/12/grassroots-movement-demands-justice-for-big-oil/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/10/12/grassroots-movement-demands-justice-for-big-oil/#comment-81963 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:25:59 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=12532#comment-81963 My guess is that the employees genuinely want to participate in Energy Citizens. Remember, if one has a family to feed and the alternative jobs pay a lot less (e.g., look at what a mechancial engineer in the solar industry earns versus a petroleum engineer) they will be reticent to just let their livelyhoods pass away.

I fully realize that carbon is a real issue. However, the economic impacts for many will be great and will need to be ameliorated when the world does transition from fossil fuels.

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