title: A strategic approach to a green economy.
abstract: The crash has happened and we face dual market failures: climate change and the greatest economic crisis of our lifetimes. American labor believes that we must have a strategic approach to greening the economy centered on domestic investment in new technologies, the creation of good jobs, and leading a shared international response to both these issues. The nay-sayers are the same financial and industrial interests that advised the world economy into chaos. Their advice to us is more of the same: no rules, no regulations, free markets, and free trade. But now is the time for real change.
authors.affiliation: AFL-CIO, USA.
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Trumka
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D004782:Environmental Health; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007391:International Cooperation; D007750:Labor Unions / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011057:Politics