Submitted 7 hours ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09082026/us-offshore-wind-disappears-leaving-workers-behind/
Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust. Now, U.S. workers mourn the well-paying careers they don’t see coming back.
I’ll note that the reason construction is ending is that Trump is using taxpayer dollars to pay companies to not build wind farms
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 hours ago A nation gets left behind. The rest of the world is moving forward, we’re clinging to our 1940s fuel for some reason.
The rest of the world
China is still the world’s largest polluter. India generates something like 20% of the world’s plastic. I’m not sure what the fuck convinces you that almost half the fucking population of the world is somehow ‘leaving us behind’.
Maybe take a trip to India. See what it’s like. Gain some fucking perspective.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 hours ago Well you seem fun to talk to. I like how you assumed a lot about me from one comment.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Ah, so their “jerbs” were indeed taken. Just not by the people they expected.