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Michael Bloomberg: “There's absolutely no evidence of that. In fact, the reverse is really true. There'd been probably ten times the number…”

On the recordJune 1, 2017
There's absolutely no evidence of that. In fact, the reverse is really true. There'd been probably ten times the number of jobs. Maybe, I think the number is actually like eight times the number of jobs created in renewables compared to what's been loss in the fossil fuel industry.
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Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg argues against the claim that the Paris accord harms the American economy, stating that renewable energy creates significantly more jobs.

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