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Moreover, this is not a huge group of people we're talking about here. The entire US coal industry employs about 55k people, from top to bottom. It's not that b
by duskwuff 3y ago
Moreover, this is not a huge group of people we're talking about here. The entire US coal industry employs about 55k people, from top to bottom. It's not that big.
- jandrese 3y agoHe could directly pay each one about $9,000 for getting a new job. This probably doesn't sound like much money, but a lot of these coal jobs are in extremely poor areas of the US. It's a life-changing amount of money for many of them. Of course the real problem is that most renewables are too efficient. They don't need that many people. Once the wind turbine, solar panels, or batteries are installed they don't need someone out there every day working on them. Not the way that coal miners have to keep digging coal. It's the kind of job that puts itself out of business over time.