Comment on As Coal Mines Close, Displaced Miners Find Work in Renewable Energy Boom

eddietrax@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Automation already took most of the mine jobs. The majority of US coal comes from the west where mines are on the surface, equipment is larger, and the coal has lower sulfur. If coal ramped up back to full production, the mines would hire back only a small fraction of the displaced workers.

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• holiday@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Clean energy took their jobs…

  And the workers…

  And moved them to safer, cleaner, and generally better environments

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