After the Coal Rush | Dissent Magazine
After the Coal Rush In Montceau-les-Mines, a French town once dependent on coal mining, there was no just transition from fossil fuels. Once a left-leaning industrial hub, Montceau today is an open field for the far right. A closed coal-washing plant in Montceau-les-Mines (Wikimedia Commons) If thereâs one part of the world thatâs synonymous with wine, itâs the region of Burgundy, in east-central France. Yet when my motherâs family moved there in the early 1960s, the charm of the vineyards seemed far off. The town of roughly 6,000 t...
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