Paul Krugman認証済みアカウント

And importantly, coal use was booming on the front end of this graph. The decline in coal jobs and US coal use are essentially unrelated.

Vast majority of coal mined in US comes from western strip-mines, where workers produce 10x the coal as eastern hard rock miners.

Each of the two largest mines in Wyoming produce as much coal as the entire state of West Virginia.

Coal use peaks in 2008 at 1.1 b. tons, but, as graph shows, strip mining had already eliminated coal mines as mass employment sites by then

To suggest the kind of employment boom Pruitt does is to lie about the fundamentals of the coal industry.

And it's a lie that has its largest impact on communities in coal country.

Even more amazing that those 50,000 jobs were created BEFORE leaving the Paris Accord! So why leave?

1) Progressive politics is based on a logical abstraction - that when you work for common good, you will eventually benefit personally--

2) Whereas modern conservatism is all about visceral impulses of greed and fear.

3) So this attack on truth & logic is an attempt to choke off the air that progressive principles need to breathe. /END

If we're lucky, we can all work in a coal mine by the time this is all over.

There's a sort of saturation bombing, where the capacity to be shocked by outrageous lies like this is deadened by the sheer multitude.

Why stop there? How about a zillion jobs created?

So Pruitt is just as big a liar as the rest of the Administration? Not surprising.