Tuesday, March 28, 2017

It's true that people who talk about the need to replace fossil fuels don't talk enough about how the economy can be restructured to support the people who lose work to environmental concerns.

March 29, 2017

There's no question that climate change is being caused by deleterious energy production and consumption.  

I plead guilty; it's the least I can do, to say that there's not enough discussion of what to do for the people who don't know another form of employment and who are from places where there's no other work.  

Vague promises that sustainable energy will provide as many jobs are insulting.  Where, how, when?  If you can't answer those questions, or you haven't bothered to answer them for the people to whom they matter in a real way every day, then you have yourself to blame for not convincing the government that those questions have real answers.  

It's really sad.  It's another example of how idealistic people can fail to achieve a goal because they don't think about all of the factors of a situation, and because they treat people whose lives will be directly affected as if they're negligible.

2010 to 2017 would have been an opportune time to figure out how to help former coal mining towns have an economic transition.



Copyright L. Kochman, March 29, 2017 @ 1:16 a.m./No code, all policies operative, all the time.  I'll publish my preliminary page and similar pages again.