As Paul Krugman writes in his OpEd column in The New York Times today, Monday,July 13, Boiling the Frog, that we are boiling two frogs simultaneously, economic recovery and climate change. And because of current policy we are killing the frogs. Things are not looking good.
The irony is that by harnessing what is required to "stop boiling the frogs" in a dynamic synergy we could reverse our disastrous course for both.
Let us remember that WWII got us out of Depression of the 1930's by putting people to work at jobs that paid wages that supported a middle class. And we can think of the products they produced for the overseas wars as being taken to the water's edge and dumped in the ocean. What if we had a WWII mobilization that produced green infrastructure right here?
It's almost a no-brainer.
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