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Originally Posted by nik-
This response didn't say anything except more of the same from your last response. I already get your stance and hard line opinion. What I'm saying is that your stance and opinion won't fly, so they need to have those jobs in place for these people before they kill their industry.
Because as much as you want to stomp your feet and say "they should have known, good of the many", even though technically it's correct, no government body or politician is going to implement changes like this to just cut off tons of people from employment.
These solutions have to be found or this is going to spin it's wheels forever. Whether it's right or wrong, that's the way it is.
Governments need to grab their balls and start doing programs to address the labour transition now.
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It sounds like you think this is going to happen overnight. It won't.
No industry is going to be "killed" with the stroke of a pen, leaving hundreds of thousands suddenly out of work. We're still going to need electricity and fuel, even if it doesn't come from fossil fuels. We're still going to need to move around. To ship stuff around. Build stuff. Fix stuff. We're still going to need to, you know, keep going.
And the transition will take decades.
So yeah, if they rolled in and locked up all the coal mines and oilfields one day and everyone was turned out, that would be bad. I'm with you there. But it's not going to happen that way. It can't.
Hell, if a guy has a couple of kids right now and he's thinking "I won't be able to feed my family if we can't use coal anymore...", his kids will be grown up by the time we aren't using coal. He should probably tell his kids to look into another industry though.