> So existing workforce in mines and O&G can transition to new green economy. Gotcha ~90% of global uranium produced comes from 4 countries - Kazakhstan, Canad

> So existing workforce in mines and O&G can transition to new green economy. Gotcha ~90% of global uranium produced comes from 4 countries - Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, and Australia - not the US. > Unlike SWEs, those “SWE level salaries” come at the price of high risk of dismemberment, death, and injury. Offshore oil rigs and domestic oil fields are dangerous working environments These are dangerous jobs, but clearly the only jobs available in a lot of these areas. As I noted previously, most renewable energy jobs (including nuclear) require some form of college education or significant retraining. It's going to be tough convincing someone to leave a well paid and well benefited job, when the alternative industry is heavily automated and thus doesn't require the same amount of employment. Let's be brutally honest - you aren't going to convince a PV fab to invest in manufacturing in Odessa TX or build a nuclear power plant in Nenana AK. The human capital just doesn't exist AND it is a fairly specialized engineering discipline that cannot be taught on the fly. ------------ I fully agree with you about the need to prioritize renewables, but you are doing a massive disservice to the cause if you are ignoring the very real concerns tens of thousands of employees in the O&G industry have. These are hard questions, and hand waving them away with platitudes like "retraining" is just setting the movement up for failure.