The Green – Collar Solution

The article persuades the public to be more concern about our environment. It is an interview of Van Jones who is a green environmentalist. His topic is concentrated on poor neighborhoods in West Oakland, California. The article talks about how life can be changed and improved for people in poverty. Jones tells an experiment that show how people in poverty do not care about environment because they are barely surviving themselves. As I read the article I got the filling that this person is interesting and funny, but he is serious in his work. His idea involves poverty level population and polar bears. To run green economy it takes a lot of work especially blue-collar work force. He is targeting those people who do not have college education and desperate for work, and instead of labeling blue-collar the label is green-collar. His proposition is that young black people would work for green organization and then they would own their own companies that make solar panel, or a wind farm. All this is a good plan more energy that would not pollute our earth and more time for polar bears to adjust for a warmer climate. Is there better solution then this one that is proposed by van Jones? Only if we could make this solution a reality our world would be much cleaner.

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