The U.S. economy is in the early stages of an once-in-a-lifetime shift from an economy powered by fossil fuels. To prevent catastrophic climate change, we have to switch quickly to electric vehicles and appliances fueled by renewable energy.
President Biden arrives for a speech at a General Motors electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit on Nov. 17, 2021. Evan Vucci/Associated Press, File
But it shouldn’t come at the expense of good-paying jobs – and it doesn’t have to.
Now that the electrification revolution is solidly underway – with electric car sales surging and electric heat pumps outselling gas furnaces – bad-faith actors are trying to exploit workers’ anxieties about their role in a zero-emission future. That effort has been on display most recently in the autoworkers’ strike against the Big Three carmakers.
When former President Donald Trump visited…
