> But the left-wing has recently been famously unsympathetic to this same argument around fossil-fuel energy jobs like coal mining I think this needs a better

> But the left-wing has recently been famously unsympathetic to this same argument around fossil-fuel energy jobs like coal mining I think this needs a better example. This isn't just left-wing opinion being unsympathetic to job losses due to new technology. This is because the specific job of coal mining needs to go away for the sake of a liveable future climate. If renewable energy companies were promising to make, say, teachers redundant, the story would be different.