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You can prop up an industry for longer than you think. Just look at corn.

• XorNot 8y ago
  The thing is humans aren't actually going to stop eating corn - like, our taste in foodstuffs hasn't shifted that much. Whereas the trend into the future is to basically drive coal use down to nothing - it's dirty and harder to deploy then modern alternatives, and even if you kept the mines open the advent of gas turbines means that coal-seam gas would be the fossil fuel you'd be targeting.
  • vermontdevil 8y ago
    Corn is mostly produced for cow feed and gas. It’ll collapse at some point but it’ll be a while due to these two industries.