I come from a Southwest Virginia coal mining family, and Judd's rhetoric is complete non-sense, especially her ignorant idea of "re-training" thousands of very tough working men who know nothing but coal mining.
Who's going to retrain them and what are these "better jobs" to which she alludes? Working in call centers????
Judd may be from Kentucky, but she knows NOTHING about Appalachia.
Of the three types the only one that is safe is strip mining.
The vertical and horizontal shaft mining for coal are both exceedingly dangerous and people are killed and injured by both methods.
Ashley Judd prefers that people die while mining coal.
Who's going to retrain them and what are these ‘better jobs’ to which she alludes? Working in call centers????”
No, the girl's right, sort of. Coal mining is a dirty and dangerous job, and removing the tops of mountains to get to it is damaging to the environment. Where she fails most is in her simplistic “re-train them and find them better jobs” idea. As you ask, who is going to do the retraining, and where and what are those “better jobs?” We've already got enough telemarketers, and then some! I'm sure coal miners are tough enough to be successful in new jobs. After all, my dad has done reasonably well. Besides, if modifying or changing the environment is so bad, why do so many libs live in cities? Those are a seriously unnatural environment, and unhealthy to boot! What she has is a sound-bite, not a plan. If she actually had a plan, and backers to help make it happen, it might be a good thing. As it is, she just leaves herself open for the smackdown.
The answers are easy. Making them happen is not.