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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Obama's Promise to "Create 5 Million New Green Jobs"

Barack Obama says he will "transform the challenge of global climate change into an opportunity to create 5 million new green jobs." But as Senior Editor Jacob Sullum writes, by the same logic, Obama should view war, crime, and natural disaster as positive developments. All three generate economic activity, after all, though we'd be better off if the resources spent on bombs, burglar alarms, and reconstruction were available for other purposes, instead of being used to inflict, prevent, or recover from losses.

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