Caption

Lynch, Kentucky - The shell of the company store remains in a former U.S. Steel company town in Harlan County. Automation and the subsequent closure of most mines have reduced the area's population and increased its poverty

Date

Mar 25, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK25E49_421

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

86,1Mb (7,7Mb) / 22,4in x 14,9in / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty mine mines colliery coal coals mining mining employed working industry industries unemployment unemployment work labour labor work work working works labour labouring labours labor laboring labors jobless unemployed redundant poor environmental pollution environmental pollution pollution pollution of the environment environmental contamination ecocide environmental destruction ecocides global warming global warming environment environment North America USA United States US-America United States of America America mine mines automatic automatical American climate change climate change automation automatization automations profession professions occupation job role roles closed shut professional industrial energy energies job hunt job hunting jobhunting job seeking job seek seeks job job-seeking population populations energy source energy sources environmental pollution ecological damage environmental pollutions job market job markets US-American fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fossil fuels poverty poverty former formerly social issue social issues environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage environmental issue environmental issues Kentucky polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful business firm company companies coal mining coal mine climate crisis automated Closure Closing Shut down