I think the 20 year olds that are going into mining today should care about what happens in 50 years, since that's about when they would retire. And if their career plans get upended because they can't be a miner for another 40-50 years, they should want to know about it sooner than later, and do something about it now.
This is no different than what happened in the past. Mining towns in the west in the 1800s in the west sprung up where there was money to be made. By the 1900s, most disappeared because it was too costly to continue to mine.
Just because we can now more easily predict the future (because the past repeats itself, and capitalism tells us that if you can';t make money doing something, find something else to make money doing), shouldn't mean that we should ignore the warning signs.
I appreciate what you are saying in the sense that people have immediate needs. I agree they must be supported, but that won't happen in capatalism by industry alone. Declining industries that big business doesn't want to continue to invest in (like coal mining) won't be the profit centers of the future, if they even are now (which they are not, in the case of coal mining). Advances in technology inevitably leave some behind. What happened to all the farriers when we switched from horses to cars? It's the same problem, it repeats, we can't just pretend it wont happen.'
I'm not lying, but I guess you can believe what you want.
The coal mining isn’t going anywhere. I’m from the Anthracite coal region originally. I lived there for more than half my life. The coal is being sold to China just like everything else.
Reading Anthracite is now expanding the Mammoth vein, they just took eminent domain of my grandfathers house and a few other in the patch. These coal families have extreme wealth, they stole all the land and mineral rights from everyone.
Leheigh Anthracite is operating in the same manner all the coal is being sold to China. I have friends that work at both collieries plenty of work up there. Coal is defiantly not king anymore but it’s not going anywhere.
Now also factor in that Germany is shutting down three nuclear power plants and reopening its coal fired power plants along with Austria, Netherlands & Italy because they need to preserve the natural gas supply LOL! Poland seems like the only one getting it right over there. They use coal and almost 20% renewable energy. They told Russia to F off years ago. They didn’t forget what they did to them in WW2.
I remember President Trump literally got laughed at when he told the UN general assembly not to be dependent on Russian energy. Anybody remember that? The Germans literally laughed in his face.
Who’s laughing now? The Rich’s and Curren’s all the way to the bank mining coal.
But I won’t disagree coal will die someday, but not in the immediate future.
Anybody remember this? Philadelphia will become the country’s new energy hub.
Five years I spent in upstate PA drilling wells and digging pipelines. For what? To be in a worldwide energy crisis?
Philadelphia is on the verge of a fracking-powered industrial boom that could fundamentally reshape the city’s economy, landscape and image.
www.phillymag.com
We should be sending Europe our gas not coal. Not only did we not do any of this proposal we shut down the south Philly refinery. That’s been there since almost the civil war era.
Anyway. Musk is the enema Twitter needs. All corrupt social media. And yes they are very corrupt.
