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Originally Posted by HarryT
I appreciate the difficulty of Australia's position, given the importance of coal-mining to its economy. It's easy to sit in an ivory tower and preach about reducing emissions, but when so many jobs depend on the industry, you do obviously have to consider peoples' livelyhoods.
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Yes. OTOH: Problems with coal are known for more then one generation now. Still: New miners get trained, new people depend on mining, (nearly) no efforts are done to 'free' regions of their mining-dependencies (at least in Germany), etc
Tradition is NOT a reason to "never change something" - after all the automobile provided very difficult times for horse sitters.