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California labor leaders say, the "just transition is pure fiction.”

“The so-called just transition has not become a reality.”

A 2021 report suggests that policy planners have been naive,

“I don’t think that they ... have a sense of the enormity of the problem.”

“Replacing [oil] rig work with solar panel manufacturing is ... harder than it sounds.”

In Coal Country, these plans face "deep skepticism":

“Job retraining ... [is] difficult to pull off ... and often yields jobs that don’t pay well."

Or are far away. "Few places have gracefully navigated the end of fossil fuels.”

Who might lose pollution-related employment, and where might they go?

“‘Oil’s gonna fight tooth and nail'.”

"'They don’t believe that they’re gonna end ... soon’.”

"Warming could affect the ... golf industry."

“‘American ... sports leagues ... are ... far behind’,”

"Relentless touring ... is ... environmentally unsustainable."

"EVs require far fewer parts" than gasoline cars,

which means "fewer factory assembly jobs."

Few workers are needed to operate a solar/wind facility, unlike "a coal-powered electricity plant."

"Solar farms often make do without a single worker on site."

Of workers who left "fossil-fuel jobs, less than 2% ended up in a renewable energy job.”

Average pay for a solar installer is "$45,000 while ... a wind-turbine technician gets $53,000."

“Median wages in the fossil-fuel power sector ... pay between $71,000 and $82,000."

Over 5 years "the share of jobs requiring at least one ‘green’ skill grew by 9%."

There is some demand for employees to "play sustainability roles [inside] corporations."

Just Transitions may be unusual, but they do happen:

Illinois -- "In 2012, we decided to buy the factory for ourselves and fire the boss.

We now own the plant together and run it democratically."

Spain -- “Unions only agreed to Just Transition after the government guaranteed

both early retirement and massive investment to create alternative jobs.”

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