Comment by 9rx

Maybe not so much active efforts to save them, but the mass lamentation around the collapse of the industry that has been going on for several decades. What efforts there are to save them is merely an extension of that.

Much the same thing has happened here too (the local watering holes struggling and failing, that is), but that isn't even considered newsworthy at the local level, let alone a message that has spread far and wide. English pubs, for whatever reason, are the only ones that have consistently caught grander attention.

But there will always be someone living under a rock, as they say.