my name is bentjakobsen. i'm a coal miner in mine 7 in longyearbyen, norway. on the front line of climate change, svalbard still relies on coal, as we're finding out. now we are in one of the two production sites we have here in mine 7, eight kilometres in the mine. this is a world few outsiders can appreciate unless they've seen and felt it for themselves. i feel calm. it's like my world. so, yeah, ifeel quite safe. i like it. i couldn't imagine doing anything else. but all this is to end, or so we've been told. bent�*s company, the government—owned store norske, has announced that mine 7, svalbard and norway's last remaining mine, will soon close forever. it makes me sad. i'm... you know, being there all my life, almost, and that's what i've been knowing. it was a mining town and now it's coming to an end. it's more and more of a tourist town. what do you say to those who argue coal mining's a thing of the past, it has to finish, if we're going to save the planet from global warming? if you can't get it from here, you will take it from somewhere else. they h