To rule means to decide and, when it is decided, not everyone is satisfied, but leading a country is not the job of the faint of heart. For this reason, Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister, resolutely resisted the heavy rains that fell on the environment after his Government gave the green light to coal mine the world’s most modern (and sustainable) construction starts work in Whitehaven, in the north of England.

Words go, words come

Abusive adjectives do not cease to fill the pages of newspapers and recent news articles in the United Kingdom: for Tim Farron, currently a regular member of parliament for the Liberal Democrats, the approval of the mine was a “ridiculous and terrible” decision. implying “a pathetic failure of leadership.” From the Greens, Caroline Lucas described the UK Government’s decision as a “climate crime against humanity” and Alok Sharma, the Conservative MP who was responsible for organizing COP26 in Glasgow and, of course, was aware that even there, like COP27, everyone was in on it. . aircraft burning kerosene wells, “opening a coal mine would not only be a step backwards for UK climate action” but would also “damage its international reputation”

work and future

Neither one nor the other realized that Whitehaven was an old industrial center that had closed its steel and chemical plants for decades and that the mine would create 500 quality jobs enabling the production of more than two million tonnes of steelmaking coal each year which would be processed with minimal environmental impact, as all washing and classifying work will be carried out in closed hangars. England, the pioneers of coal mining in the 18th century, proved that there was indeed a future for a mineral which, even today, was essential and, if not produced in Europe, had to be care from Indonesia, Australia, Colombia, China, Russia or Vietnam.