What I'm taking from this thread is that coal is a viable source of jobs for the time being,
Tom,
This is the nuanced part of this, that is true. And that is the right thing to say. It is still WRONG to say that the coal business is going to grow. Or getting people's hopes up that there will be more and more jobs in the coal business over time - there will not be!
Canada, and our green-enviro-loving PM is getting the same lashing up here about his agreeing to the recent major pipelines. FOR NOW oil is still a VERY important and needed world resource. It would be suicidal to just turn the taps off!
The middle-way - is to keep working with oil, but at the same time, investing as much as we can in green, sustainable and alternative energy sources! To some extremists on the left, that is massively hypocritical - but it's just the financial/economic reality of the current times. It's just being rational and realistic!
Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog
Tom,
This is the nuanced part of this, that is true. And that is the right thing to say. It is still WRONG to say that the coal business is going to grow. Or getting people's hopes up that there will be more and more jobs in the coal business over time - there will not be!
Canada, and our green-enviro-loving PM is getting the same lashing up here about his agreeing to the recent major pipelines. FOR NOW oil is still a VERY important and needed world resource. It would be suicidal to just turn the taps off!
The middle-way - is to keep working with oil, but at the same time, investing as much as we can in green, sustainable and alternative energy sources! To some extremists on the left, that is massively hypocritical - but it's just the financial/economic reality of the current times. It's just being rational and realistic!
Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog