Work, despite the reluctance of those first introduced to the concept and its details, is what gives you something to do which ordinarily provides you with money in order to live. But, jobs - those traditionally male occupations such as hunting to put meat on the table and killing off all the grizzly bears in the neighborhood, are no longer needed but sometimes wanted by the recidivists among us. Gathering wool caught on bushes, carding it, turning it into thread and then on a loom creating cloth are other jobs that are practiced in countries which have never had electricity, gas motors or steam engines. They are never coming back, either.
Factories turning out buggy whips and horse drawn carts will simply never come back. Times change and the population has grown to the point that traditional hand work to provide simple equipment for people who live simply has given way to the modern industrial model and, that is changing too. The utopias of recent times point to simpler living in tents and communes which hearken back to times which had their day and may never come back as originally designed.
The new jobs to replace those lost are promised to be of the "greener" kind. Part backyard vegetable gardens and keeping a few chickens for their eggs, meat and feathers, and part trying not to fill our atmosphere with gunk from factory chimneys, the new jobs are not yet defined nor are they coming very soon.
Our world is at a tipping point, a turning point, at a sea change where what was once is no more and we are struggling to get a grip on what the new world is yet to be. Work is good but specific jobs with specific benefits are better. We have not yet defined exactly what "green" jobs there will be while the rustbelt rusts away. There is hope that the "promises" of science and the trust placed in a different governmental philosophy than that which helped cause the loss of jobs and futures will have the answer.
I like the wind farm idea. The only trouble with it is that it will be owned and operated like the factories that fill the skies with black soot. The Electric Companies will continue to charge you for bringing lights, heat and air conditioning into your walls so you can flip switches and get what was promised.
Nothing remains the same for change is the only constant. Some jobs are gone forever while the promises of work servicing those wind farms are just that. We have yet to see the new world that is coming like the change of seasons. Wait a little while and the weather will change. Here in Florida it might be a hurricane.