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If 25% of the US economy is tied to pollution, what'll happen to employees if polluting stops?

These planners know that previous attempts at “Just Transitions” have not gone well.

California labor leaders say, the "just transition is pure fiction.”

“The so-called just transition has not become a reality.”

A 2021 report suggests that policy planners have been naive,

“I don’t think that they ... have a sense of the enormity of the problem.”

“Replacing [oil] rig work with solar panel manufacturing is ... harder than it sounds.”

In Coal Country, these plans face "deep skepticism":

“Job retraining ... [is] difficult to pull off ... and often yields jobs that don’t pay well."

"Few places have gracefully navigated the end of fossil fuels.”

Who might lose pollution-related employment, and where might they go?

“‘Oil’s gonna fight tooth and nail till the end — they don’t believe that they’re gonna end ... soon’.”

"Warming could affect the ... golf industry." “‘American ... sports leagues ... are ... far behind’,”

so are musicians, comedians, and other performers. "Relentless touring ... is ... environmentally unsustainable."

"EVs require far fewer parts" than cars with old-style engines, which means "fewer factory assembly jobs."

Car companies buy $10 billion worth of advertising (annually) from commercial media organizations.

Many fewer workers operate a solar or wind facility than "operate a coal-powered electricity plant."

"Solar farms often make do without a single worker on site."

Of workers who left "fossil-fuel jobs, less than 2% ended up in a renewable energy job."

Average pay for a solar installer is "$45,000 while ... a wind-turbine technician gets $53,000."

Yet "median wages in the fossil-fuel power sector ... paid between $71,000 and $82,000."

"Between 2018 and 2023 … the share of jobs requiring at least one ‘green’ skill grew by 9%."

The number of programs to help employees "play sustainability roles [inside] corporations is exploding.”

Just Transitions may be unusual, but they do happen:

Illinois -- "In 2012, we decided to buy the factory for ourselves and fire the boss.

We now own the plant together and run it democratically."

Spain -- “Unions only agreed to Just Transition after the government guaranteed

both early retirement and massive investment to create alternative jobs.”

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