Monday, February 1, 2016

What's the best way to get some insights into the current moment of coal? Well, you could do some anthropological fieldwork at a coal conference (or be lucky there is a great journalist out there doing it for us): Here's Kuykendall on #CoalTransUSA 2016 (with images, tweets) · taykuy727

#CoalTransUSA 2016 (with images, tweets) · taykuy727

Click on the link above, and take some time to enjoy the feel of coal men's industry talk.  And maybe have a bit of schadenfreude,* if like me, you are tired of coal-CEOs blowing smoke. 

Despite my distaste for the big men of the coal industry, I maintain my respectful solidarity with coal miners – how to pursue justice with labor and new economies in coal regions is another story.

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