It's Time to Electrify the Railroads

[aviken]

All the concern about what are people in this industry if that changes and there is no more need for them....it's simply hogwash. There is a certain amount of work out there, and there is always something to do. The reality is if your industry is changing, you change with it or change careers.

This is the same debate that has happened a million times over in just about every industry. It's the price of progress. What about all the coal miners & workers at the coal factories? All the people that work at gas stations? If we get more green electricity, and stop using so much oil, then what are they going to do? Something else. They'll have to.

The earth still has the same number of people to feed, house and clothe...so they will do something else...even it means retraining / learning to do something different. After all, they had to learn how to drive a big rig at some point, right?