The Weekly Planet: The Secret Political Power of Fossil Fuels

The Atlantic ^ | 10/27/20 | Robinson Meyer

[DallasBiff]

Coal and fracking don’t work like other declining industries, and that matters for Democrats.

A decade ago, the American coal industry began to die. From 2011 to 2016, more than 39,000 jobs eroded away. At a scientific conference last year, I met a group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who were curious about how this had affected American politics and, most pointedly, Donald Trump’s razor-thin victory in Rust Belt statesp>

[DallasBiff]

Coal and fossil fuels are evil to liberals, want to make a liberal democrat cringe like dracula seeing a cross, show a piece of coal

[chajin]

Their favorite singer of color is Natalie Solarpanel

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Fungi]

The Atlantic: never let the truth get in the way of the agenda,

[MAGAthon]

there is such a potent message at the end of this video...well worth watching and showing to the younger generations:

12 March: Youtube: 13m33s: NetZeroWatch: Energy & the poverty of Nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scYlWiunJo4

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Obama's War on Coal flipped several Ohio counties in my neighborhood RED in 2016, and they've stayed that way.

Unintended consequences.

[Jolla]

Went to a cousins funeral in west Texas a couple of weeks ago. My brother and I passed a couple of 1.5 miles train loads of coal rolling down from Wyoming/Montana past our grandparents house just like it has for the 60 plus years.