Carbon Capture, Employment, and Coming Home from Prison
Carbon Capture, Employment, and Coming Home from Prison
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10.1080/01639625.2020.1783160
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2020-06
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1.6
通讯作者：
John H. Boman IV;A. Smith;J. Saxe;T. Righetti;A. Rony;Maohong Fan;Thomas J. Mowen
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作者：
John H. Boman IV;A. Smith;J. Saxe;T. Righetti;A. Rony;Maohong Fan;Thomas J. Mowen
摘要对于那些出狱的人来说，找到并确保就业是一个巨大的挑战。在这篇文章中，我们认为碳捕获技术具有独特的潜力，可以积极影响那些正在经历再入过程的人的就业机会。值得注意的是，这些职业几乎完全存在于已经雇用了前重刑犯的行业。如果碳捕获技术在全美实施，我们的估计表明，前重刑犯将有资格从事近360万个职业。其中许多就业机会将在直接或间接支持自然资源开采、乙醇生产、发电以及钢铁和水泥生产的行业创造。除了有益于经济，这些职业还将为回国的人提供经济保障和支持性的、亲社会的同龄人关系。因此，碳捕获具有促进环境正义的独特能力，同时为负担过重的刑事司法系统提供救济。
ABSTRACT Finding and securing employment is a huge challenge for those who have been released from prison. In this paper, we argue that carbon capture technology carries the unique potential to positively impact employment opportunities for those who are undergoing the reentry process. Notably, these careers exist nearly entirely in industries which already employ ex-felons. If carbon capture technology were implemented throughout the United States, our estimates suggest that ex-felons would be eligible for nearly 3.6 million careers. Many of these jobs would be created in industries which directly or indirectly support natural resource extraction, ethanol production, electricity generation, and iron, steel, and cement production. In addition to benefiting the economy, these careers would provide returning individuals with financial security and supportive, prosocial peer relationships. Accordingly, carbon capture carries the unique ability to promote environmental justice while simultaneously providing relief to a tremendously overburdened criminal justice system.