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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The sad part is, some small towns with single employers like coal mining towns will probably become ghost towns as part of the transition. There's really not many ways to transition a local economy rapidly enough to save the town. And with coal mining in particular, the skillset needed to work in the mines is not necessarily a skillset that will translate well into other fields, at least not in the time the towns will have between the mine closure and everyone leaving for greener pastures