It's 2021. If you still think coal is a good business plan for America's future, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell ya.

"In April 2020, Bloomberg New Energy Finance found Solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build generation for at least two-thirds of the global population." https://t.co/LHjkhtXCBg.
The @nytimes reports that Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) are likely to be the most vociferous objectors to Biden's climate plan. I'd like to point out that supporting coal is going to lead their states to ruin. https://t.co/TTE77Zz9dt
Coal is already one of the most expensive forms of energy generation. It's actually cheaper to produce *new* solar power plants than to keep existing coal plants running. https://t.co/PsUfVPAJdj.
Supporting coal in this rapid-growth renewable market is like the people at Kodak who thought digital photography was a fad, or the folks at Sears who thought their "tried and true" brick and mortar stores could weather in the Amazon instant-buy age. IOW, terribly short-sighted.
Investing in renewable energy will actually cause a net job *creation*. The coal industry currently employs ~160,000 workers, compared to ~800,000 workers in the renewable sector. Coal jobs will rapidly shrink while renewable jobs will rapidly grow. https://t.co/qa8xHY8CUb
Yes, there will need to be job retraining programs for those people in the coal, oil, and gas sectors, but this is included in Biden's energy plan: https://t.co/mrCYNxpDwU
And even if Biden's aspirations don't match reality, those coal jobs are *still* going away. The market is rapidly shifting towards renewable energy whether Kentucky and West Virginia like it or not. https://t.co/Gft85KBFGH
Senators McConnell and Manchin can dig their heels in and make nonsense claims about jobs and American energy independence, but what they're really doing is poisoning their states' economies by refusing to accept the inevitable economic shift to renewables.

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The Government is making the same mistakes as it did in the first wave. Except with knowledge.

A thread.


The Government's strategy at the beginning of the pandemic was to 'cocoon' the vulnerable (e.g. those in care homes). This was a 'herd immunity' strategy. This interview is from


This strategy failed. It is impossible to 'cocoon' the vulnerable, as Covid is passed from younger people to older, more vulnerable people.

We can see this playing out through heatmaps. e.g. these heatmaps from the second


The Government then decided to change its strategy to 'preventing a second wave that overwhelms the NHS'. This was announced on 8 June in Parliament.

This is not the same as 'preventing a second wave'.

https://t.co/DPWiJbCKRm


The Academy of Medical Scientists published a report on 14 July 'Preparing for a Challenging Winter' commissioned by the Chief Scientific Adviser that set out what needed to be done in order to prevent a catastrophe over the winter

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