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To be fair Poland started with that number being over 98% when communism fell. It's estimated Poland would have to spend >5% of GDP for 20+ years to replace it
by c2h5oh 7y ago
To be fair Poland started with that number being over 98% when communism fell.
It's estimated Poland would have to spend >5% of GDP for 20+ years to replace it with nuclear or renewables and it's not a popular idea when you have a populist, global-warming skeptic government and close to 100k people working in coal mining (not that far from 1% of all employed in Poland)
tl;dr; unless there is external pressure & funding it's not changing.
- beat 7y agoI wonder how many other countries are in Poland's boat? That's some tremendous political resistance to overcome. In American politics, the fate of coal miners is ridiculously overrated. The coal industry employs fewer people than a mid-sized national fast food chain.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoGo further east and it's the same. There's also no sun and the gas is expensive or from Russia. Pro west countries don't want to depend on Russian gas. The whole world is complex and energy sector just mirrors it. Hence the change is difficult to overcome and many people don't see or understand why. Everyone would love to be green and carbon free, that's not the question.