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		bradleyishungry on Oct 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Michael Bloomberg pumps $500M into bid to close al... There’s no real replacement plan for the coal mining jobs in the rust belt, so some people are somewhat justifiably against it there. Obviously we should move away from coal, but if that’s not addressed, a poor area is just going to get poorer. There should really be a plan to build alternative energy factories and train people in those areas

nitwit005 on Oct 15, 2023 [–]

There are a bunch of communities where the coal innevitably ran out, and the remaining people are stuck in poverty anyways.

In theory we can find those people new jobs, but they're generally in an inconvenient location for anything other than the mine that used to exist.

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