| shikamaru317 said: So what exactly do you green energy fans propose be done about employing the coal miners you want to put out of work? Since 2011 60,000 coal miners have been laid off, and there are still 77,000 more coal miners who will be laid off if coal mining is abandoned. These people have a skill set that doesn't transfer over to many other jobs. Many towns in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania are built exclusively around the coal mining industry, there simply aren't any other jobs for these miners to work near them. Are you willing to pay increased taxes in order to retrain these out of work coal miners? Personally I'm all for retraining them, but I have a feeling many of the people who want green energy aren't willing to pay higher taxes to retrain the employees they want to put out of work. |
You said it yourself, retraining. It won't be easy but if you want to survive, you gotta pick up a new craft. The goverment and the green energy companies have to help these people, we can just toss them to the side but it takes just one generation to break families or towns who have been in this line of work for decades. I'm not versed or read in this issue but just as we have to adapt to the worsening conditions of our planet, so do they and we should all help if needed.
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