alt Hacker News> Meanwhile China runs away with all the clean energy tech (solar, wind, batteries, etc, etc.) while we hold to fossil fuels to save less than 200,000 jobs.
If you're talking about coal miners, David Frum joked / observed that there are more yoga instructors in the US than coal miners:
* https://www.sfgate.com/columnists/article/Yoga-teachers-vs-c...
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canyp • yesterday at 9:33 PM
That headline really deserves a literary prize.
Yoga instructors, assemble!
And that was in 2017! The population of working coal miners shrank by 20% in the last decade, from 50k to 40k
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CEU1021210001#0