Ch. 28 Two Generations of Work
"The creation of millions of secure, well-paid jobs must be at the forefront of any Green Industrial Revolution." - Clive Lewis According to Jeremy Rifkin, the transition to the Third Industrial Revolution will take about 30 years. This is about the same amount of time we might need to build the robust cooperative economic sector outlined in Chapter 21. There are no simple and quick solutions to problems that are as big and complex as global warming and widespread economic inequality. These issues were decades in the making and won't be solved overnight. While that may seem like bad news, it's actually good news . Why? For three reasons: 1. It provides us with an opportunity to create millions of new jobs. It will take a lot of work to get this new infrastructure built. 2. It allows us to not just create "jobs" but cooperative worker-owner opportunities. This is how we build our new Cooperative Economy with a Green New Market focused on community wealth b...