RENEWABLE energy (RE) is not going to save the planet, at least not the way it is being pursued now.

That was one of the key assertions of a very enlightening article written by Sean Sweeney for the City University of New York's (CUNY) New Labor Forum journal at the end of last month. Sweeney is the director of the International Program on Labor, Climate and the Environment at CUNY and the coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED), a network of about 83 energy industry unions in two dozen countries. Given his background, it is only natural that Sweeney's context is the business of RE, and that is a rather effective approach to considering the broader problem of reducing energy production's impact on the environment.

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