CleanTechnica
Summary
The newly authorized American Climate Corps will employ 20,000 young people in its first year. Youth in the paid training programs will conserve and restore lands and waters, bolster community resilience, deploy clean energy, implement energy efficient technologies, and advance environmental justice. The White House announcement explains that the program will offer “skills-based training necessary for good-paying careers in the clean energy and climate resilience economy,” and in doing so, will “mobilize a new, diverse generation.”
The American Climate Corps is a very clever program. It attracts young people who might feel daunted or powerless in the face of the intimidating obstacles that stifle quick climate action progress. It reshapes the narrative so that full youth climate idealism can accommodate a difficult pragmatism: transitioning from 150 years of fossil fuel power and a current supply of about 80% of the world’s energy to a planet powered by renewables is messy and multi-layered.
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