Coal industry faces 1 million job losses from global energy transition - research

Oh, no!!! Anyway....

coalminers: just making money, making sure my children have no future

World faces ALL job losses if no global energy transition (not to mention lives)

Remember one of Trump's first moves was to subsidize coal mines in west Virginia? Instead of paying for miners to retrain for a new skill with that money he kept an industry everyone knew was dying running. And everyone says "he's a business man" no "business man" would keep an unprofitable industry in business.

Good. That's what you get for trying to go backwards in time

They've tried constantly to transition them but they'd rather starve than learn a new skill. I feel for them but if they only want to go all in on voting for "fascist force the country to run on coal" I don't feel for them once the stopgaps run out.

Some of those communities ARE finding their way into the future though and I support supporting them.

I'm surprised 1 million people still work in coal. Edit: 1 million globally. Makes more sense

Friendly reminder that nearly all currently operating coal plants have been built scine the sixties, as before that it was often unprofitable to use for electricity production.

That’s right, we could have gone straight to nuclear and created the economies of scale necessary to bring down costs if we haven’t needed to find jobs for all the miners and poor lobbyists who had mined coal for home heating and industrial use.

We’ve also settled the science about the whole carbon killing us thing since the seventies, so there should have been plenty of time in the last fifty years to get rid of them.

It’s almost like there could have been another industry similar to this that existing workers could have gotten training for. ☀️

Good! That frees those workers up to do something else useful for society!

*worldwide.

There are nearly four times as many fast food employees in the US alone.

Suggestion, when the mines close, the workers should be given a golden handshake (not the execs as is usual), generous enough to live on for their lives in dignity.

Ideally this should be paid for by the coal mining companies that exploited the coal workers to extract coal and profit, at the cost of the environment and often their worker’s health, the same companies who having made their buck are now pulling out and leaving their workers high and dry. But even if the golden handshake is paid for by the government it seems to me that compared to the $Bns that it costs for a new generation of nuclear power plants (before even considering running costs, waste management costs and decommissioning costs) paying off a few coal miners is a reasonable investment to prevent sudden decline of the coal mining communities and the types of resentment that decline and abandonment causes towards a greener future and the rise of reactionary politics we see on the back of that.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

SINGAPORE, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The global coal industry may have to shed nearly 1 million jobs by 2050, even without any further pledges to phase out fossil fuels, with China and India facing the biggest losses, research showed on Tuesday.

Hundreds of labour-intensive mines are expected to close in the coming decades as they reach the end of their lifespans and countries replace coal with cleaner low-carbon energy sources.

But most of the mines likely to shut down "have no planning underway to extend the life of those operations or to manage a transition to a post-coal economy," U.S.-based think tank Global Energy Monitor (GEM) warned.

Dorothy Mei, project manager for GEM's Global Coal Mine Tracker, said governments needed to make plans to ensure workers do not suffer from the energy transition.

GEM looked at 4,300 active and proposed coal mine projects around the world covering a total workforce of nearly 2.7 million.

China's coal sector has already undergone several waves of restructuring in recent decades, with many mining districts in the north and northeast struggling to find alternative sources of growth and employment following pit closures.

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