[pp.int.general] Fwd: anti-IP policies would lead to green job losses

[Philip Hunt]

2009/11/10 Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com>:
> I should have forwarded this a lot sooner presumably. It allegedly
> arrived to a Green MEP the other week. feel free to write the Green
> MEPs of your member state (or any member state if you're not from a
> member state) and debunk the information:

It's a crock of shit for all sorts of reasons, but the biggest one is
it's not even internally consistent: the executive summary says 1
million job losses, but the next page says 72,928; this is apparently
meant to be a sample of job losses from which the overall figure of 1
million is calculated.

The following page, page 3, says "would result in 978,000 US job
losses through 2020, representing roughly 3 percent of American green
jobs." This means there will be 32.6 million "Green jobs" in the USA,
a ridiculously inflated figure.

By way of contrast the *total* number of Americans working in
manufacturing (all industries) is 33.4 million. It's manufacturing
jobs that might be exported without green patents, andi n any case, US
firm will relocate manufacturing to where it's cheaper anyway, like
they have been doing for the last 40 years.


-- 
Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
Campaigns Officer / Press Officer, Pirate Party UK