Coal industry faces 1 million job losses from global energy transition - research
Coal industry faces 1 million job losses from global energy transition - research
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.
I wonder how/if the states of these workers will reemploy them
Oh, no!!! Anyway....
How can you be so cold? They've barely had decades to prepare for this eventuality.
They are so cold because there is no coal to keep them warm… much sadness indeed.
It's not about being cold, the workers that are working in coal are not at fault. Imagine you being a mid thirties guy in Indonesia, when you were in early twenties looking for a career in a couple try with sever lack of jobs that pay high enough to sustain a life that allows you to own a house and a car near some urban area, when world is still warming up to the idea of Global warming, you will take the coal mining job because it pays well, allows your kids to study in English medium schools. Allows you to save to send them to university. They are only trying to get what a lot of people in developed have taken it for granted. And it's a legitimate problem on how to re-employ people from early retirement of coal plants.
Prison industry faces thousands of layoffs as Allies liberate Nazi concentration camps!
I hear that solar companies are hiring.
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)
Good. That's what you get for trying to go backwards in time
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.
German CDU did similar bullshit.
They cut funding in renewables, costing those sectors >100k jobs to protect around 20k jobs.
One might think it wasn't about jobs at all, but that sweet sweet lobby money
lol that fellas a clown
The same businessman who is such an utter business failure that he has resorted to declaring bankruptcy SIX times. Checks out.
Pretty sure Trump's companies aren't profitable either. So kinda makes sense.
I'm surprised 1 million people still work in coal. Edit: 1 million globally. Makes more sense
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’ve got absolutely zero sympathy for anyone in the coal industry who refuses free retraining. Go ahead. Go bankrupt. See if the rest of the world gives a shit.
The people who want to move on from coal move out, thus a sampling bias exists where the diehards live off promises that can't be fulfilled
Maybe in America, and that’s with the word maybe doing some heavy lifting.
But if you live in a coal mining town in Columbia or Kazakhstan how many training programs do you think are being paid for to reskill those workers? What other opportunities do you think they are being offered?
And even if you do live in America how realistic do you think “retrain to work in IT” is for a 40yr old coal miner?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t support the coal industry at all, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t support the workers who get left behind.
"Retraining them to work in IT" is a false argument all together. The plans being referenced (which are real proposals and not whatever you're making up) would be to set up alternative energy in those affected communities and training them for those jobs.
Going with your logic though, it's more feasible to you to ban alternative energy in order to force these mines back open than to train them for free in something new cause they're scawed of change? GTFOH.
Here's free training and support to transition you out of the industry you lost. Take it or starve, your choice. 🤷
It would be cheaper to pay them $2000/mo for life and a one way ticket to anywhere that deal with the climate consequences of keeping a dead polluting industry going
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.
Only if Russia didn't fuck up chernobyl neuclear would have more support. Fukushima never did that much to hurt public confidence in nuclear.
Indeed. I'm very unhappy with how things have turned out.
der tekin 'er jerbss!
Good! That frees those workers up to do something else useful for society!
It’s almost like there could have been another industry similar to this that existing workers could have gotten training for. ☀️
Nope... competing industries had to get killed to keep coal alive because that's what lobbyists would reward politicians for with lucrative jobs after their political career. For this reason the former German government for example killed an once world-leading solar industry via massive overregulation... 100k jobs gone to keep 10k coal miners in their job.
*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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