Coal is dead says WH adviser

[someoneyouknow]

"Coal doesn't even make that much sense anymore as a feedstock."

Those are the words of Cary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council.

"If you think about how solar and how much wind power we've created in the United States, we can be a manufacturing powerhouse and still be environmentally friendly."

An in-depth study by Columbia University concluded that "Trump's efforts to roll back environmental regulations will not materially improve economic conditions in America's coal communities."

The academics urged Trump to focus on ways to retrain coal workers and safeguard their health benefits instead of offering "false hope that the glory days can be revived."

When asked for their comments on this 180-degree turn from what had been said on the campaign trail, coal mining industry lobbyists replied, "But, but, the con artist said so!"

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/26/investing/trump-cohn-coal-paris-climate-deal/index.html

 

[Iceprincess12]

I'm going to start a campaign and get it declared an endangered species. Fur is dead too, but I still want a coat.

 

[Raziel83]

I am under the impression that coal jobs have been decreasing for decades because of increasing automation and mechanisation in the industry (my great grandfather worked in a coal mine shoveling coal. I doubt those jobs are plentiful now.) Even if coal use could be increased it would not create more jobs than the industry is already losing.

Same thing in farming as well. We are going to either have to think of new jobs to replace those industries that are dying or decreasing their workforce ...Or we are going to have to accept that not everyone can get, or even needs to get, a job and that is not a bad thing and they should starve because of that.