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Of course, some jobs– for example, those of the 53,000 coal miners in the US – will be lost, and programs are needed to retrain such workers for other jobs.
Unfortunately, it is not clear whether, say, the young German urbanites who voted for the Greens in the European Parliament elections this year would happily compensate the older auto workers – let alone Polish coal miners – who would suffer in a rapid transition.
There were also laid-off public-transport employees, fishermen and miners, beauticians and barbers, and millions of shopkeepers – all on the verge of hunger, with their savings used up.
If reducing greenhouse-gas emissions means closing down coal mines and coal-fired power plants, those with an interest in the coal sector will not support climate policies, just as those in wealthier areas don’t care much about laid-off coal miners.
Just as miners use a canary to determine whether the air in a mineshaft is safe, the world should regard Ethiopia as a test of its own resolve to achieve a clean, prosperous future.
But wildcat miners are hardly the only players scrambling for Amazonian riches.
We may compare it with volunteers taking part in a dangerous rescue operation – for example, the mission that freed two trapped miners in the Beaconsfield gold mine in Tasmania, in 2006.
It takes only a few brave people to rescue trapped miners.
The head captain smiled at first; for the scheme of excluding women from the pit was not usually well received by the miners, who were troubled about placing their daughters, and not much affected by questions of morality and health.
The young girl ran forward; while a crowd of miners proceeded to the shaft, yielding the fire to others.
This chimney-passage left in the seam was reserved for miners, and led to all the secondary passages.
It was sixty metres from the cutting to the upbrow, and the passage, which the miners in the earth cutting had not yet enlarged, was a mere tube with a very irregular roof swollen by innumerable bosses; at certain spots the laden tram could only just pass; the putter had to flatten himself, to push on his knees, in order not to break his head, and besides this the wood was already bending and yielding.
Then, descending from the cutting they squatted down, their elbows to their sides, their buttocks on their heels, in that posture so habitual with miners that they keep it even when out of the mine, without feeling the need of a stone or a beam to sit on.
Now the moment for action had come, and he cast a restless glance at the miners farther on.
And in face of the unwillingness of the miners who disputed the point, saying that they were good judges of their safety, he became angry.
Little by little the stalls emptied, and the miners returned from all the galleries.
Other miners bound for the earth-cutting came up, new bands which one by one were engulfed in the pit.
His wife already held a licence, like many miners' wives; and when he was thrown on to the street he became an innkeeper himself; having found the money, he placed his inn in front of the Voreux as a provocation to the Company.
They must be sending down the last miners to the earth-cutting.
It seemed to them more sheltered in the earth, from which a race of miners, generations of starving people, extracted it for them, a little every day, as they needed it.
Thus, instead of putting aside a few sous like our peasants, miners drink, get into debt, and end by not having enough to support their families."
On his white skin, the whiteness of an anaemic girl, the scratches and gashes of the coal left tattoo-marks, grafts as the miners called them; and he was proud of them, and exhibited his big arms and broad chest shining like veined marble.
In summer all the miners could be seen in this condition at their doors.
This caused him no astonishment, for miners are rough fellows who have thicker heads than engine-men; but he was surprised at the courage of this little chap, and at the cheerful way he had bitten into the coal to avoid dying of hunger.
He insisted especially on the services which the association would render to the miners should they go out on strike.
The old miners were already expanding their nostrils, like good dogs, in a chase for coal.
From five to six hundred miners were there in front of the little platform, which was placed in the corner, and the bidding went on so rapidly that one only heard a deep tumult of voices, of shouted figures drowned by other figures.
Barbara's Day, the fete of the miners when they do nothing for three days, the rabbit had not been so fat nor so tender.
A few old miners also ventured there, and the worst husbands of the settlements, those whose households were falling into ruin.
She called all the miners her children; and grew tender at the thought of the flood of beer which she had poured out for them during the last thirty years; and she boasted also that a putter never became pregnant without having first stretched her legs at her establishment.
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