> Chris Tolley wrote:

>> A given industry may have a long association with a particular community
>> for perfectly understandable reasons - e.g. coal mining in a certain
>> place because that place is above a coal seam. The coal seam might be
>> well known for having many centuries worth of useful production in it,
>> and people in the local area may bring children into the world knowing
>> that there is no reason not to believe that there will be work for them
>> in the local area when they grow up. Until someone many miles away takes
>> a political decision to close the mine down for reasons not connected
>> with its viability.

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> Are many children really brought into the world because someone lay back
> and thought of coal production statistics?