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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's not a switch that gets flicked and suddenly the job the guy had on friday doesn't exist on monday. It will take a decade or more to begin to start phasing in serious alterations to the power infrastructure of the country.
Many of these jobs are artificial anyway and exist because of societal support and a real, definable underwriting of the cost of doing business.
There used to be an ice exporting industry in the north east. Huge blocks of ice carved up and shipped all over the world. It employed nearly 100 000 people!
Now though, we have machines that dispense fresh ice for us in a manageable size whenever we want.
I get what you're saying about people won't vote for something that kills their job, but that sort of goes into the whole social fabric thing which we've been destroying for decades. It's more efficient to pay to retrain someone than have them collect paltry assistance cheques.
Why can't a power engineer work for a public transportation company or a geothermal generation plant instead of on a SagD site?
I can't think of many careers that would be too adversely affected from a switch from one kind of power generation into several kinds. Geoscientists, maybe?
It's all a big 'won't somebody think of the children' that comes across more like "I fear change".