I wonder how/if the states of these workers will reemploy them
Oh, no!!! Anyway…
How can you be so cold? They’ve barely had decades to prepare for this eventuality.
They are so cold because there is no coal to keep them warm… much sadness indeed.
Prison industry faces thousands of layoffs as Allies liberate Nazi concentration camps!
I hear that solar companies are hiring.
Good. That’s what you get for trying to go backwards in time
World faces ALL job losses if no global energy transition (not to mention lives)
Remember one of Trump’s first moves was to subsidize coal mines in west Virginia? Instead of paying for miners to retrain for a new skill with that money he kept an industry everyone knew was dying running. And everyone says “he’s a business man” no “business man” would keep an unprofitable industry in business.
German CDU did similar bullshit.
They cut funding in renewables, costing those sectors >100k jobs to protect around 20k jobs.
One might think it wasn’t about jobs at all, but that sweet sweet lobby money
lol that fellas a clown
The same businessman who is such an utter business failure that he has resorted to declaring bankruptcy SIX times. Checks out.
Pretty sure Trump’s companies aren’t profitable either. So kinda makes sense.
I’m surprised 1 million people still work in coal. Edit: 1 million globally. Makes more sense
Friendly reminder that nearly all currently operating coal plants have been built scine the sixties, as before that it was often unprofitable to use for electricity production.
That’s right, we could have gone straight to nuclear and created the economies of scale necessary to bring down costs if we haven’t needed to find jobs for all the miners and poor lobbyists who had mined coal for home heating and industrial use.
We’ve also settled the science about the whole carbon killing us thing since the seventies, so there should have been plenty of time in the last fifty years to get rid of them.
der tekin 'er jerbss!
Indeed. I’m very unhappy with how things have turned out.
Good! That frees those workers up to do something else useful for society!
*worldwide.
There are nearly four times as many fast food employees in the US alone.
It’s almost like there could have been another industry similar to this that existing workers could have gotten training for. ☀️
Nope… competing industries had to get killed to keep coal alive because that’s what lobbyists would reward politicians for with lucrative jobs after their political career. For this reason the former German government for example killed an once world-leading solar industry via massive overregulation… 100k jobs gone to keep 10k coal miners in their job.
