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Spain bought out their coal miners recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/spain-to...

surprisingly not /that/ expensive considering the early retirement and training for newer miners




It’s really not expensive at all, but you have to have policymakers with the will to implement these policies.

Arby’s has more employees than there are coal miners in the United States, for example. The problem is there’s an enormous amount of investors and entrenched interests who are going to have trillions of dollars in stranded assets from these policies. Those folks should not be made whole for bad investment decisions.




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