Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough?

[First Aspect]

This. Its just Farage throwing scraps to the voters to see if anythings attracts them.

It is not uncommon in ex mining areas to politically signal like this. Trump does it in Pennsylvania.

I recall this even in Midlothian where as recently as 2012 or so a vast open cast coal mine was approved, right across the road from an application for a wind farm.

Neither project ever happened.

 

[BoldonLad]

I had a thought about this. I know that there was a (diminishing) coal industry throughout most of my working career but IIRC mining apprenticeships pretty much finished soon after I started my (not coal) apprenticeship. As I am now retired my conclusion is that all UK miners are either retired or approaching it.
Not only is there no industry but there are very few miners and those who might still consider going to work in the pits won't fancy going to the coal face, and certainly won't want to be training youngsters who do not want to be there. Nobody with any sense will invest in it.
It is a ridiculous proposition which would be cut off at source by anyone with half a brain.

I am not sure of the National situation, but, locally (I live in a Colliery "village", although, I never worked in the Coal Mines) the Coal Mine closed 40 years ago. The site of the former colliery is now called "Colliery Wood" and has mature trees growing there.

If we assume a Coal Miner who was 18 at the time of closure, that person would now be 58. Although I never worked in the Coal Mines, several of my Cousins and various other acquaintances did, the only two who I can think of, who are still alive, are aged 86 and 94.

Opencast coal extraction is still going on, to the best of my knowledge.

Interestingly, it was a school trip to a Coal Mine (Westoe Colliery) which perked up my O-level results. We were taken down the mine, and, actually right up to the coal face, where coal was being extracted with the aid of a huge and incredibly noisy machine. I am sure what we saw was the "good" bit, I doubt the NCB wished to kill off a few schoolboys. However, that visit (around 1962) was enough to convince me that I never ever wanted to actually work down there. Since I had already decided that woking in the Ship Yards was not for me (my father was a shipyard worker), I had no choice but to get myself a few O-Levels and get myself a "cushy office job" 😂

 

[Pblakeney]

I am not sure of the National situation, but, locally (I live in a Colliery "village", although, I never worked in the Coal Mines) the Coal Mine closed 40 years ago. The site of the former colliery is now called "Colliery Wood" and has mature trees growing there.

If we assume a Coal Miner who was 18 at the time of closure, that person would now be 58. Although I never worked in the Coal Mines, several of my Cousins and various other acquaintances did, the only two who I can think of, who are still alive, are aged 86 and 94.

Opencast coal extraction is still going on, to the best of my knowledge.

Interestingly, it was a school trip to a Coal Mine (Westoe Colliery) which perked up my O-level results. We were taken down the mine, and, actually right up to the coal face, where coal was being extracted with the aid of a huge and incredibly noisy machine. I am sure what we saw was the "good" bit, I doubt the NCB wished to kill off a few schoolboys. However, that visit (around 1962) was enough to convince me that I never ever wanted to actually work down there. Since I had already decided that woking in the Ship Yards was not for me (my father was a shipyard worker), I had no choice but to get myself a few O-Levels and get myself a "cushy office job" 😂

I had a similar experience of a trip to the coal face between leaving school and starting my engineering apprenticeship. All it did was confirm that I had made the correct decision.

 

[Stevo 666]

woking in the Ship Yards

Might have a certain attraction for some of our fellow forumites.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Might have a certain attraction for some of our fellow forumites.

I didn’t know there were shipyards in Surrey.

 

[BoldonLad]

I didn’t know there were shipyards in Surrey.

Not many Coal Mines either 😊

 

[Pross]

This. Its just Farage throwing scraps to the voters to see if anythings attracts them.

It makes no sense anyway as I don’t think I’ve anyone under the age of 70 suggest it would be a good thing (and those over 70s that think it would be good probably never spent a day underground themselves).

 

[BoldonLad]

It makes no sense anyway as I don’t think I’ve anyone under the age of 70 suggest it would be a good thing (and those over 70s that think it would be good probably never spent a day underground themselves).

Rose tinted spectacles do wonders for the memory 😂

 

[Rusty Nails]

Rose tinted spectacles do wonders for the memory 😂

Ah the good old days, when old men would stand on corners, coughing their lungs up and spitting out black phlegm. Youngsters today would love it. Just think of the opportunities for scrubbing each others backs in the pithead showers and viral TikTok clips.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

when old men would stand on corners

Old men probably much younger than many on here.

 

[Stevo 666]

I didn’t know there were shipyards in Surrey.

I see what you did there 🙂