A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction. Van Jones More Quotes by Van Jones More Quotes From Van Jones To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees. And the government should also directly employ people to do things like coastal restoration, land restoration, reforestation and similar programs that absorb carbon and protect America's beauty. Van Jones government land jobs Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios. Van Jones cost higher energy The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become. Van Jones capture technology wind The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill. Van Jones wind-farms leaving dirty America's government has to get the public investments right. Van Jones investment government america Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies. Van Jones technology government two The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of energy become more competitive. As soon as that happens, a tidal wave of new capital, innovation and entrepreneurship will flood into the clean energy space - creating new jobs and opportunities for Americans of all walks of life. We did that for the internet, with public investments in the basic system through the Pentagon, followed by rules that encouraged innovation and competition. And that is why the internet took off in the United States first. Van Jones opportunity jobs mean Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes. Van Jones uniforms transition levels The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters. Van Jones obstacles legacy It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby. Van Jones party military dirty The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines. Van Jones party people dirty Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too. Van Jones agendas energy ideas I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector. Van Jones competition guy trying I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to understand why my message keeps getting drowned out. Big oil and big coal are terrified by the green jobs message. Van Jones oil should-have jobs The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that the elite economic interests that are holding them down are also feeding them a bunch of lies. Van Jones favors government lying There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all. Van Jones fighting cities want I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition. Van Jones hero winning heart Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up. Van Jones taken blow thinking I hope everybody's getting smarter. Van Jones smarter I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again. Van Jones fighting lying thinking
