What’s a ‘just transition’ and can you switch to green energy without sacking coal workers? – Sydney Morning Herald

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The town where Wendy Farmer was born no longer exists. It was literally dug up for coal in the 1980s when mining in Victorias Latrobe Valley expanded. As a schoolkid, she took tours of the old power stations, of their towers belching out the planet-warming emissions that stripped the blue from the sky. “We were taught that it was just steam and the power stations make the weather,” Farmer says. “But it was Victorias backbone, it powered the whole…

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