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.
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.
lol that fellas a clown
Pretty sure Trump’s companies aren’t profitable either. So kinda makes sense.
The same businessman who is such an utter business failure that he has resorted to declaring bankruptcy SIX times. Checks out.
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)
I’m surprised 1 million people still work in coal. Edit: 1 million globally. Makes more sense
They’ve tried constantly to transition them but they’d rather starve than learn a new skill. I feel for them but if they only want to go all in on voting for “fascist force the country to run on coal” I don’t feel for them once the stopgaps run out.
Some of those communities ARE finding their way into the future though and I support supporting them.
I’ve got absolutely zero sympathy for anyone in the coal industry who refuses free retraining. Go ahead. Go bankrupt. See if the rest of the world gives a shit.
The people who want to move on from coal move out, thus a sampling bias exists where the diehards live off promises that can’t be fulfilled
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.
Indeed. I’m very unhappy with how things have turned out.
der tekin 'er jerbss!
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.
*worldwide.
There are nearly four times as many fast food employees in the US alone.
Good! That frees those workers up to do something else useful for society!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SINGAPORE, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The global coal industry may have to shed nearly 1 million jobs by 2050, even without any further pledges to phase out fossil fuels, with China and India facing the biggest losses, research showed on Tuesday.
Hundreds of labour-intensive mines are expected to close in the coming decades as they reach the end of their lifespans and countries replace coal with cleaner low-carbon energy sources.
But most of the mines likely to shut down “have no planning underway to extend the life of those operations or to manage a transition to a post-coal economy,” U.S.-based think tank Global Energy Monitor (GEM) warned.
Dorothy Mei, project manager for GEM’s Global Coal Mine Tracker, said governments needed to make plans to ensure workers do not suffer from the energy transition.
GEM looked at 4,300 active and proposed coal mine projects around the world covering a total workforce of nearly 2.7 million.
China’s coal sector has already undergone several waves of restructuring in recent decades, with many mining districts in the north and northeast struggling to find alternative sources of growth and employment following pit closures.
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