• SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    200k people is nothing.

    1. What a horrible, neoliberal thing to say.

    2. It’s not just 200k people, it’s hundreds of thousands more that lost their livelihoods when the main economic driver in their area shut down.

    I’m not arguing for coal (it’s 2024, why are we still using it at all?), I’m arguing against abandoning an entire population of people who made their livings off of it and its cascading economic effects.