Posted on 10/10/2023 9:26:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Nearly 1 million coal jobs may be lost by 2050 in the wake of the coal industry’s expected closures, a new report found. That number excludes additional climate pledges to phase out coal.
An estimated 990,200 global coal mining jobs will be shed by 2050, with nearly half a million, or 414,200, of these expected to be gone by 2035, according to a report from the Global Energy Monitor.
Equal to an average of 100 layoffs per day, the projected cuts would lay off around 37 percent of its nearly 2.7 million person workforce by 2050.
Analyzing 4,300 active and proposed coal mines and projects around the globe, the report found China and India are expected to experience the largest job cuts.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Except this is a global projection.
Seeing what going on around the world in places like Germany and the cost of electricity when you try to go all green, I suspect Coal is going to make a surprising comeback as a power source
Is this a learn to code issue?
In seriousness, the destruction of our energy sector is deliberate.
It effects every single aspect of the economy.
Economic projections 27 years out are meaningless in reality.
But not in China or India.... Ah, green politics, and its own ideological foot into which it shoots itself. Then, reloads and shoots itself again.
That, too. But the trend is there. What’s weird is they say the biggest coal job losses will be in China and India. I didn’t read the article, but I cannot imagine what would cause that. I doubt they are going to catch the “Climate Catastrophe” bug going around.
Idiots. Idiots. Idiots. These pinkos don’t give a damn about people trying to survive. Poor that can hardly get by and pay their bills. Bastards.
But the academics and politicians lap them up, spew them into the complicit media, and some money -- grants and the like -- change hands.
Fixed it.
A million coal jobs lost?
Then who is going to produce the energy necessary to build and produce all the EV cars that are dependent on coal and oil resources?
The biggest factor in the decline of the coal industry here in the U.S. has been the displacement of coal by natural gas as a cheaper source of energy for many applications like power generation.
400 years worth of coal in this country alone. We are the Saudi Arabia of coal.
The enviro-nazis need to be squished like a bug. How to do it? I say push their buttons with policies that get them to react in unlawful ways. Then put them away. They’re getting away with it now and the rats/MSM are letting them.
One NR article once suggested internal exile-too many incarcerated. I say external. An option to live in a 3rd would country of their choice. Take their EBT cards with them. Minimal welfare on par with the locals. If they get in trouble over there they can be put in their jails and eat fish heads. Recidivism will go down as they appreciate the US more. The other countries will cooperate with our foreign aid stings coming into play.
Thanks to China and India, the use of coal increases yearly... And they’re now reopening mines in Canada that have been closed or years. The demand is there, the coal will be mined.
Coal is what powers our electric cars.
Our energy policy is insane and the insanity is deliberate.
Decommission reliable sources of electricity for the grid, prevent new sources, and transition to “green energy” which is defined as solar, wind, and batteries.
The radical idiots are even against the cleanest energy - hydropower. The “salmon” problem has largely been solved by ingenious fish ladders and hatcheries paid for mostly by our electrical utilities.
I remember when natural gas was touted as a “clean energy” and it is very clean AND we can produce plenty of it here in the US with American jobs and industry.
There are many problems with this plan to “transition to a green grid”, but the most obvious is one that is least discussed.
The vast majority of solar is produced in Western China (with much of it by Uighur slave labor in camps).
Much of wind power, the least reliable form in most regions, also involves manufacturing in China.
Almost all lithium-ion battery production is connected to China with most of it produced solely by the CCP.
Green energy is really “red” because it is produced in China. While I don’t think the math works to transition our “grid” to “green” because the capacity is simply not there and the costs is out of reach, the bottom line is that doing so would turn our energy security and future over to China because we don’t make this stuff nor do we mine and refine the minerals.
Any politician who pushes this should be confronted on this fact. This bullchit climate crisis or whatever they call it today is really a ploy to make the CCP rich. Check the donations and you will see that they are on the payroll of China. China also funds much of our “environmental activists” because it pushes us towards industries they control. These people are the most useful of idiots to the CCP.
By the way, if this were about the “environment” we would not buy any of this stuff from China. Their mining interests around the globe as well as their manufacturing process at home is anything but “green”.
See my post above, but they are now against natural gas which is absolutely crazy.
Natural gas is incredibly clean and 100% reliable and we have an almost endless supply of it here in the US - certainly enough to meet all our power needs for many generations to come.
Coal is still the dirtiest, but overall it is now far cleaner than it was even 10 years ago and pollutants are less than a fraction of what they were 20 or 30 years ago (much like car emissions). It remains a good option that is sensible and affordable.
However, as I said above this has nothing to do with logic. Follow the $$$$ and you will see that our war on energy is pushing us further into an unreliable sphere that is “made in China”.
FWIW - it is ridiculous to believe that we could ever meet our energy needs with “green energy” based on simple math, but the hysterical efforts to do this are funded by China and based on social engineering promoted by China.
America should have the cheapest electricity in the world by a large margin. We have the most robust grid and the most options for production within our own borders and that is even before you consider nuclear.
They will not be lost.
When the great reset is finally accomplished
“ suddenly “ coal will be found to be climate change friendly
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/19/climate-philanthropist-george-soros-invests-millions-in-coal
Germany is already reopening their coal mines.
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