Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Raised for a Future that No Longer Exists" video.

  1. FRACKING killed coal because gas is vastly easier to extract, transport and use. Appalachian geography is why it was always reliant on resource extraction. That geography will not change so the choices are adapt or move. As with EVERY region reliant on resource extraction and/or agrarian jobs there was no economic diversification and no intellectual growth because no one wanted to invest in education. It's too late today. Insurers won't underwrite new coal power plants which already are expensive maintenance nightmares. Change is hard. Universal basic income will eventually be necessary and it's creeping in by other forms.
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