Aaron Sojourner: Coal mining: 0.03% Oil & gas extraction: 0.08%

Would love to see this in the USA too. What share of employment do you think is in: - coal mining? - oil & gas extraction? Answers below.

This @theausinstitute.bsky.social survey illustrates kind of perfectly why the fossil fuel industry spends so much marketing spend talking about jobs, economics and how dependent government revenue is on fossil fuels. australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...

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Coal mining: 0.03% Oil & gas extraction: 0.08%

@brothtran.bsky.social you may find this thread interesting. We were just discussing this, right?

This reminds me of some older news article that compared coal mining jobs to workers at Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse employs more people than coal but the politics of the past hasn’t updated to focus on what service workers at large need

Aaron, any data/stats on Green jobs? Photovoltaics, specifically?

That's a great question and I don't know the best sources. Here's one covering through 2023. www.energy.gov/policy/us-en...

U.S. Energy & Employment Jobs Report (USEER)www.energy.gov The landing page for U.S. Energy & Employment Jobs Report (USEER).

Amazing! Thanks! ☺️

I was just wondering about this. Any stats specifically on retraining programs or energy communities transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables and how their local economies shift?

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