Michael Bloomberg to spend $500 million to close coal plants

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday he would contribute $500 million toward closing coal-fired power plants across the United States

Wow, half a billion dollars to kick thousands of Americans out of their jobs. That’s some kind of philanthropy racket Bloomberg’s got going. I bet he gets a massive tax break for it too.

Let’s just say, these people will never vote Democrat again, he just cut a huge chunk of that for the Democrats. Great job, Michael! You are helping the GOP.

He will be unsuccessful. Those plants are going to stay open.

Thank you to Michael Bloomberg because time is of the absolute essence and also to Sierra Club who has been working so hard on helping our country switch from fossil fuels to renewables. We are in an accelerating national and worldwide climate emergency. Every month counts so much more than even every year now in our U.S. and global progress to reach net zero carbon emissions as well as to reduce all the carbon emissions already emitted for decades with such utter lack of environmental and public responsibility by government and business leaders who should have been leading the charge during the last century to far higher gains by now in renewable energy production and storage, energy efficiency upgrades, carbon sequestration through healthy forests, soil, etc.

AOC and Ihan Omar rejoice.

It's like working in the gasoline business when the planet is moving more towards electric cars

Adapt and learn new things - don't stay stagnant to keep your skills relevant to changing labor force

If you're a car engineer or mechanic who works on gasoline-powered cars, learn how electric cars work too

It's the same here - learn how other types of power plants work too

Don't expect on working on the same things forever - technology changes faster now more than ever