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WanderingEng · 2266 days ago · link · · parent · post: As clean energy prices fall, rural communities in Asia, Africa benefit
A utility in Wisconsin announced plans to retire a large coal plant and install a moderate amount of solar (their first that I know of). No business is paying the slightest afternoon to Trump's rhetoric. This isn't Massachusetts or California. The utility isn't even in liberal Madison. It's just good business right now.
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.