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Leonardo DiCaprio sneaks into Trump Tower; meets Donald and Ivanka about how green jobs can boost economy
2016-12-09
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Leonardo DiCaprio had a 90 minute meeting with Trump and Ivanka in New York

  • The actor discussed with the President-elect how green jobs can boost economy

  • DiCaprio, 42, is known to be a strong advocate of fighting climate change

  • During the election campaign, actor had urged people to vote Hillary Clinton
Posted by:Fred

#8  At the beginningg: There was classical economy: create jobs by building road, bridges, dams and things that can make economy MORE efficient

Then there was keynesianism: If you pay peole to dig holes and fill them again this will create jobs when they spend their revenue. Notice however keneysians strongly advice to try budiuld useful things like bridges, roads, damùs atht make economy more efficient

And then there is green economy: ceate jobs by emplying peole ata makingf econmoy LESS efiicient like forcing people to use more expensive energy.
Posted by: JFM   2016-12-09 19:33  

#7  Anon1, I would also be ok with tax money for research on nuclear power other than fusion - different fission systems, perhaps Thorium fueled, and/or smaller, distributed, 'fail-safe' systems.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-12-09 16:36  

#6  At least DiCaprio went to talk to him. Unlike a lot of Lefties.

And Mr. Trump met with a member of the political opposition. As if his predecessor or Ms. HRC would have.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-12-09 14:49  

#5  currently there are yuuge subsidies going to Tesla, Honda, Toyota, etc. for their electic and hybrid vehicles- some indirect, some direct

Posted by: lord garth   2016-12-09 11:14  

#4  NO MONEY should be given to "fight climate change" if that means carbon tax, solar panel subsidies, wind farms or geothermal.

it's just a big moneyspinner for chinese manufacture which is why they have played propaganda games to promote climate hysteria here in the west

if Trump does anything about climate change he should only divert money for 2 things:

1) Nuclear FUSION research. If there is any "green tech" to be invested in then do that because all our energy problems will be solved when that comes good

2) make birth control freely available for the top 100 birthrate countries to get global population shrinking instead of growing. Those people need access to condoms, the pill, vasectomy and implanon, and the women need to be empowered to choose their own family sizes.
Posted by: anon1   2016-12-09 10:05  

#3  If he wants to put up some of his own money I say go for it.
Tax payer money, not so much.
Posted by: jvalentour   2016-12-09 07:51  

#2  His ego is so big, it has its own gravity. I suspect though that Trumps is a black hole by comparison - "And who are you?"
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-12-09 07:30  

#1  DiCaprio, 42, is known to be a strong advocate of fighting climate change

During the election campaign, actor had urged people to vote Hillary Clinton


He's not the brightest bulb, is he?
Posted by: Crusader   2016-12-09 01:06  

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