“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.” StatesMovingParentLossUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingBuilding Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.” HumansCountryLossWorstBuildingMaterialsResourcesInfrastructureHuman Resources Author:Bashar al-Assad
“It is true that building a green economy will not be good for everyone's jobs. Notably, people working in the fossil fuel industry will face major job losses. The communities in which these jobs are concentrated will also face significant losses. But the solution here is straightforward: Just Transition policies for the workers, families and communities who will be hurt as the coal, oil and natural gas industries necessarily contract to zero over roughly the next 30 years.” PeopleCommunityNaturalHurtLossEconomyPolicyBuildingSolutionsBe GoodSignificantGasStraightforwardFossil FuelNatural Gas Author:Robert Pollin