Andrew Klavan: The Green Jobs Answer Man

A straw man is a misrepresentation of an opponents position. Advocates of green energy would never be this dumb. I have never heard an environmentalist this unintelligent. "what is a green job?" "a green job is a job that is green." < clear strawman

You're the guy that sits at parties with a confused look on your face any time someone tells a halfway clever joke.

Wow! You really beat the stuffing out of that straw-man. Whatever will people with an IQ over 59 do now?

lord Monckton had the best answer to global warming...."buy a pair of shorts"

A#1

I am about to die from laughter, he is the funniest guy to come along in years!!!!!!! Thanks Klavan!!!!

This is not a straw man
person a has position X
person B presents Y which is a distorted version of X
Then attacks Y
There for x is false.
Unfortunately while this is comical it is not a true straw man just mockery combined with facts that pro green jobs people ignore because they are inconvenient

Building and then destroying straw persons is funny...for 3 year olds. More serious discussion of how we integrate more green tech with what we have is much smarter and, more enlightened. Pretending we don't impact on the environment is stupid, and trying to mitigate that makes sense. The market problem is the natural unwillingness for companies to shift to new, initially more expensive tech that replaces cheaper, but environmentally unfriendly practises. The impact is immediate and goes straight to bottom lines and whacks quarterly earnings. In the face of such market failure, smart government intervention is needed. Even Adam Smith recognised that.

I've been to west Tezas and seen the windmills which stretch to the horizon as far as the eye can see on both sides of the highway as you drive by. Having worked 25 years as an electrical power facility system designer, I wonder what the payback ( amount of time a system must operate to pay for the initial costs, plus continuing to maintain the system ) in years is. A ballpark estimate tells me there is no payback, as costs to create and maintain the beasts never goes away. In fact, you must pay and pay and never recover the costs, even if the bank were to finance at no interest. I didn't see any birds, though... oh well, I suppose if they were oil derricks, gas would be affordable and America would be prosperus, but how can you sell socialism if you did that? The mind just boggles...

"I will pass that information along." Laughing my ass off!

Why the low-rez?

my first year of college was for engineering - with an alternative energy major. Until I found this out: all the students the college had just put through their program - didn't get hired. the companies that said they would hire from the college's pool of grads Didn't hire. So I jumped off that sinking ship and switched to mechanical with no harm done and no money wasted.

"They" cut down trees JUST to put up Solar panels (look it up I'm too lazy to do your research) ...

Hahaha

hooray for green ecconomy: drill more oil to build green jobs hhhhhh =) I blame the republicans too

Oh come on you've gotta do more on the solar part. Like 10,000 arguments were left without rebuttal on that one lol

All the proof we need to know that we should go nuclear instead. Thorium reactors anyone?

I need a list of Green Jobs and what people can do?

Except green energy and regulations are necessary to fight climate change

Very Funny!!!

This is so good!

Industrial jobs used to produce all those windmills and solar panels aren't green at all: they produce tons of environmental contaminants. Luckily, almost all of that is done off-shore, in places like China. Of course, they get the benefit of all those jobs, and the pollution they generate poisons the earth, but environmentalists don't have to think about that.

If we could see the wind it would be green. Hahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kinda shifty...lol

K l a v a n there are no es in klavan

Green is obviously very bad. It has two E's! 😯

It's not easy being green.

9 years later, just as hilarious. And true.

Marvin the Martian has a nice new job!

Where are these green jobs

I can't stop laughing omg

Funny. Klavan was wrong after all these years.

This was hilarious. Sad but hilarious.

Thanks. I was wondering where that $2.5 billion went.

Green jobs are green indeed... as in the greens that power them... xD . Cheers!

This is hysterical. How did I miss this for 10 years.

Hahahahahaha! "Gone with the Wind".....

very smart

GREEN

Green energy will make energy expensive

2022 still relevant

Oh my goodness! These videos just now starting popping up in my feed. I had no idea Andrew Klavan had this older material out here! These are hilarious! He is SO funny! I'm thoroughly enjoying this rabbit hole! 🤣

Excellent voice character work. He’s sooo funny

We all Need a GREEN 💚 Future!!!

I think The Green Jobs Answer Man and Kamala Harris studied under the same rhetoric master.

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