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kleinbl00  ·  2245 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: As clean energy prices fall, rural communities in Asia, Africa benefit

I read a report on job loss commissioned under LBJ in 1965. Know what they were mourning?

The goddamn coal miners. Less than 30% of their workforce employed from 30 years previous.

1965.

We have been bemoaning the fate of the goddamn coal miners since before we went to the goddamn moon.