It never ends well when a whole local economy is based on nonrenewable natural resource (“Coal state struggles,” 12/9/19). Communities all over the world want the jobs that mining brings, but then their children or grandchildren end up living through the burst of the bubble.
—Taal Levi
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline When the coal bubble bursts.
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