making existing transportation infrastructure work better for more people is a smarter investment from both a climate and an economic perspective than covering more land with asphalt. Renewable energy is equally promising, in part because it creates more jobs per unit of energy delivered than fossil fuels. In 2012, the International Labour Organization estimated that about five million jobs had already been created in the sector worldwide—and that is with only the most scattershot and inadequate levels of government commitment to emission reduction.10 If industrial policy were brought in line
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