Om Patel0:00 Hey, so I kind of want to come out here and talk about climate change and the uh policies around that and how that can affect the economy.0:07 Um I kind of wanted to dive into the question of whether the government can actually fight climate change without hurting jobs.0:16 And so pretty much my whole thought process and you know my ideas on this is that whenever we talk about climate change, someone and someone brings up jobs, it's like if we stop using oil, what's gonna happen to all the people that work in the industry?0:31 Um and that's a fair question.0:32 But I don't think it's just about stopping something.0:35 I think it's about like more so shifting.0:37 I think if we shift more towards green energy like wind and solar, that in itself can create a lot of new jobs, maybe even more than what we have right now.0:46 Um and I think that it just takes balance, you know.0:49 The real challenge is not um whether or not we should we should just completely stop one or the other.0:55 I think it's the idea of shifting towards one and phasing them out and so that there's a balance between the two.1:01 Um, you know, the real challenge is just gonna be helping workers move from one type of a job to another.1:06 You know, if the government can make that transition a lot more fair and easier, we can protect both the planet and along with people's paychecks so that the economy doesn't take a hit um and the standard of living amongst people doesn't go down.1:17 So I do think that um there needs to be some changes made to this, but I think if we have an idea and an outlook kind of like along the lines of shifting rather than stopping and starting something new, I think that'll help a lot of things.
Gaines Gunn0:00 What's up, AM?0:01 I think this is a really interesting topic, um, like climate change in the economy.0:05 And I I think you have really good points um pertaining to people with creating jobs and losing jobs.0:13 But I do think that we also have to look into um, you know, like the sa the sustainability of long-term green um energy.0:21 And I will say, like, I think in general, I think transitioning to more green energy is a good thing.0:28 I think it's uh something that we need to do more, we need to take care of our environment of the world that we are um living in.0:34 But I will say um there's a study that found that the oil for um wind turbines to continuously make it be able to spin like the loot lubricant um uses just as much oil as if it was burned in in a power plant.0:49 Um and another one would be um like the life cycle of these things.0:53 It's just not fully sustainable.0:55 I do agree that we need to kind of move that way, but I will say, like, if we're gonna argue for um, you know, this this green energy per se, we do have to take into uh uh account you know the upfront costs and the cost of maintenance and you know the fact that oil is still the main component of a lot of these um systems, you know, to manufacture um solar panels, you do use um some oil and you use some minerals that are hard to mine and are disruptive to the environment.1:24 And so I think all this circles back to the point that you made about a balance, and I agree.1:31 I think that there needs to be a balance between keeping jobs where they are, continuing that production, and also transitioning towards green energy and moving forward in that in that aspect.1:42 But I think that we also need to keep in mind that these two industries are going to rely on each other for a really long time, and it's not just gonna be like the flip of a switch when we just transition fully.1:53 Um and I do completely get your concern with you know putting people out of jobs, and I agree with you that um green energy is gonna create jobs in the manufacturing world and the maintenance world and the you know scientific world.2:06 So overall, great topic.2:08 I think you have some great points in there.2:09 Just wanted to share kind of what I thought.
Noah McDonald0:00 Yeah, um uh first of all it's just great video.0:02 I really like what you said about how it it would create a lot of new jobs.0:06 Um, but I think the hardest thing would be that it changes the infrastructure of uh pretty much a lot of the US because a lot of it right now is based off non-renewable energy.0:16 And so obviously in the long run renewable energy is the way to go.0:19 But um it's just tough to be able to convince people that it's the way that things have always been and so you're gonna you're gonna have a hard time.0:25 That's you already had it.0:26 That's gonna be able to do something like that.