> 2. What will happen to people and places who were economically dependent on coal mining? Something tells me the factories for solar panels and wind turbines a

> 2. What will happen to people and places who were economically dependent on coal mining? Something tells me the factories for solar panels and wind turbines aren't being built in West Virginia -- or perhaps not in the US at all. And I'm sure they require a completely different skill set. What nobody really wants to tell you, the same thing happens that happened to people in deindustrializing area. As a group, they get stuck in poverty. The problem is... we can't really do much about it. Progress needs to happen, especially in this case. Everybody keeps yapping about it but in practice only the longshoremen, through their very powerful unions, managed to have a decent transition when their jobs died out. Everybody says "we should so something" but nobody's willing to sacrifice their money to actually do anything.