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Coal industry faces 1 million job losses from global energy transition - research (www.reuters.com)

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I wonder how/if the states of these workers will reemploy them

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[-] zepheriths@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remember one of Trump's first moves was to subsidize coal mines in west Virginia? Instead of paying for miners to retrain for a new skill with that money he kept an industry everyone knew was dying running. And everyone says "he's a business man" no "business man" would keep an unprofitable industry in business.

[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

German CDU did similar bullshit.

They cut funding in renewables, costing those sectors >100k jobs to protect around 20k jobs.

One might think it wasn't about jobs at all, but that sweet sweet lobby money

[-] rex30303@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hey you forgot we were also leaders in those fields technology wise. And iirc they only protected only 10k jobs.

[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Leaders in lobbyism cough~~legal bribery~~cough?

Yeah i think the 20k was an estimate of a total of jobs in the affected sector, not all of which would be cut? I'd have to look into the source again but yeah, it was pretty clearly cxu bullshit.

[-] rex30303@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

No actual leaders our solar panel industry was quite good afaik. And of of the day it doesnt matter if it was a 5:1 or 10:1 ratio bullshit is bullshit. And if you want to have high blood pressure look up who of the NRW Landtag espacially CDU has a job at RWE.