A life to saving what i want to east makes the woman hes prone 0. In response to Global Warming germany is in the process of closing down its coal industry for many years the countrys principal source of energy especially in the formerly communist east but theres fierce all humans about the pace of that closure between those worried about the economic consequences and those who believe that Immediate Tax is necessary to come back to Climate Change so who will win germanys cold war. Only germanys just real. A region of factories smokestacks and shop its. So this is just for the visitors now just as a visitor says. And like thousands of men before me im going down a coal mine. This is stepping into the bals of modern german history. 875. Shifts were built in the 2nd world war the boots of 1st the 1st comers in this ok. The. Coal from the rule valley the dutch border helped build the steel that the 3rd reich. When germany lost the war and was split into a capitalist west and the soviet run east this cold helped to remake germany into would economic power. My grandfather this is like this yes this is of course. Called. It we use it like this to destroy big storms right. Siegel was born into this world and thought hed die and that my grandfathers a horse of mine are by far as i was on my own or my son was on my luck or 6 years but. Thats thats the end cause you have gone all mining in permanent black coal mines anyone else how do you feel about that oh thats. So. I told me he was very steady areas here. This is no longer a working. Mine and some fellow ex miners run it as a tourist attraction to show visitors how life used to be so. It was. In 2018 germany closed its last black. And a rule tradition dating back centuries. To us such. This is the Corporate Headquarters of the rule coal giant rangy its main job now is rehabilitating the closed minds the foyer proudly displays one of the last black nuggets never mind that christophe biker is the companys last spokesman in colsons this is like a piece of the berlin wall yes this is a part of a burglar or a wall for us at the last coal and we take care of this part and nobody is allowed to told to take a piece of it. Its like a baby. Germanys transition from calls started in 2007 when the cull Corporation Sat down with the unions and politicians and agreed to close down all the black coal mines by 28 saying the deal was that no workers would be sacked that all be given early retirement or found jobs in other industries it was an heroic gult and back then it had nothing to do with Climate Change it was all about money. But the 1970s it was cheaper to import coal than to dig it up from the rules underground mines history was surviving on government subsidies politicians decided in 2007 to pay not any longer subsidies father coal production. And to re decided to close. With the polluters in this company and they asked us how much time you need to do that without any problems so you close the black coal industry without firing any workers yes for this you need to think of some time and money but we have had both. The. Was not in my view. Many of those workers still get together in the rule colquhoun bought their days underground or. Older miners were given early retirement younger ones will help to find new jobs. In this choir that ranges from a. Research scientist to a budding trade Union Delegates christian whos 31 is looking forward to his new life representing workers the titles like that you found me last summer with a mission then to hear him say called back well let me spin this now also i. Do not to listen to the playing of just said to give this a living. But elsewhere in the country mining continues. Because germany is still europes biggest producer of brown coal. Im driving from the rule valley to the old east germany. The region of loose a show on the polish border has huge reserves of this low grade high polluting fuel. Brown coal is a big employer here and they keep the jobs. After communism collapsed in 989 and germany reunited towns like shrem big did it tough as the christina hints here explains. I had just bought. Into a further court. Aided hurt kept as i am in the shade and for stand in there lousy. As a slider sawdust not there i need gunson under an industry class and mostly only textile interest. Pots and. Brown coal is profitable because it isnt deep on the ground its dug up near the surface taken to nearby power plants and burned to boil water to make electricity. But its even dirtier than black culture. The problem isnt the steam you see pouring out of cooling towers its the Carbon Emissions you cant send. In the cosmopolitan capital bloom environmentalists have been demanding politicians shouted down. We need to end fossil fuels right now we dont have any time to waste anymore we cant wait another 18 years so were taking direct action to call for the immediate phase out of college or me. Daniel hoffecker is an activist with a new kind of protest movement called. Meaning game. As a mass action of civil disobedience against cold climate injustice and germany and what were doing right now is to prepare ourselves for this action. Doesnt march in the streets it uses military style tactics to occupy col areas fielding thousands of discipline activists in strategic formations to evade police and shot infrastructure down. The movement has put intense pressure on a government already struggling to come to missions since the paris Climate Change agreement of 2015. Germany cant hope to meet its paris targets unless it closes all this so a commission representing politicians corporations unions and local government has just sounded the death knell for brown call but crucially in whats called the call compromise the going to be given nearly 2 decades to adjust the plan is that by 2038 at the latest the last brown coal mines and all the coal fired power plants will be gone for good. You might think people in new say she would be horrified. If the course is a dance house i feel done for youre going to do it does it. Was one of the members of the Coal Commission that rushed out the compromise. And i and molly have to have come on this step i told us. Shrem big smear insists its much better than waiting for cold inevitable long in terms of why. The government has agreed to kick in 40000000000 euros to kick start new industries in the brown coal region. When i land. On t. In a given a full end result at a starched and sign him how is that stymie our then pour ya boy be outside and most us ima. Get is thats counted on this is tougher i know and spec and get leaked the region is already seeing the fruits of germanys embrace of Renewal EnergyWind Turbines and solar farms sprouting up next to power plants germany still relies on domestic and imported coal for about a 3rd of its electricity but around 40 percent comes from renewable energy. The i aim is to make that 65 percent by the end of the decade of oil in a given me i know it was a competence in the inner game. In there in a key for title. The reagan hoping to turn the old coal fields into an eco tourism destination as disused mine pits a rehabilitated into artificial lakes. The 2038 deadline should give the region plenty of time to adapt. But many activists insist the world cant wait. We have to phase out coal in germany right now if we dont do that its going to be quite deliberate the the end of the world as we know it the i. P. C. C. Tells us that if we continue burning coal were running into catastrophic Climate Change. As the transition details of being worked out and a good lender announces its next mass occupation will be loose aisha. The announcement doesnt go down well with most locals hello not going to my car for all. Our. Absolutely common. Trunks a ferret is a Security Guard at a coal plant hes as passionate about bruce a shia as he is about hunting im like oh my god blesses us oh i got some i dont yard. Well theres with many loose ations he had to find a new way after communism ended and state subsidies dried up as well as working security for Energy Companies he runs a Small Business selling preserved meets from his kills. Us is thus the son who is a god and the bees are after all and i shall now call the night here. As it doesnt. Make my day does aside 1000. This is flush yes this time. Its worse and worse. Drunks say felt believes the east was hard done by off to reunification geometry been avoided by a few hours of my knowledge found in a micro cough or did as a call for calm fumio nutritional value are not happy about having to and not. Valma 4th child. People learns to rely on each other and they dont like being pressured by outsiders less food dollars its marketing dollars it sells delouse it does is. Fine shaft as this is unmarked and yes but animal from god it does on my own. I didnt our. Mustang can see. The visions and the can is vanzant of was your heart of. Your former. I want doesnt. Do you believe new orleans. Or indeed i was a spend. 2 days before the threatened protest to say shit the staging a counter approaches theyve set up a vigil at a power plant that slated to close early in 2028. Banners proclaiming we live from coal not great fairytale. And then argue will talk better get. It. Done. And then a coil of pop like i get on the phone here. I dont get older than me. In the mainly sation town of compost theres a growing Police Presence and then not just keeping an eye out for and again and. While its the day before the main protest and by coincidence across Germany School students are going on strike for Climate Change though in this coal town its a little more difficult right now the millennial are almost outnumbered by police. In many other cities tens of thousands of students are marching the organize a hear constantine go to get ski has kept his expectations lower. So close to him how many people do you think the marching thanks i am content and all 250 maybe we had in the. Year thats its good but its a lot less than other german cities yes is it difficult to do a protest like this in this cold down yes it does that mean youre already had demonstrations against venue is uncommon in every other joe and city i think. So do you feel a bit divided being from a cold community but protesting against coal and not because we all know that we have to end color the question is how fast do you have to do it and. In my opinion you said you had to do was stop it this was also idle. Was that mr gandhi was a bit dated now you know and there you are. All nicked him you know that i thought that we didnt see these the protest you know me and we can but its all i can do to you. Know never get my attention. You know only the bush budget thats been on my. Own been on my mind and getting home this weekend and given me given the good news now im in a corner. But the only ones thats who goes there yet. I know i was being i. Just found out here the 5 i dont think was out that day yet there is a generational divide. The kids dont remember communism and they dont see a future in an industry thats heating the planet for now they can tend to make their point in peaceful street much as. God. Oh you are either. Home. Before you are you though that night coal mining families gather at a power plant to show their support for the coal compromise its. Giant videos praise the industry and accuse end the glenda of intimidation that i was its. The same. For the wealthy this is. The sort of the why wouldnt i want to thank him for his they come in plenty to say no point to christina him a the mayor of tells them they wont be pressured to stop called sooner. Will miss stanley our sky 100 have him that is i know good and i was as i did can speak to you then beat it oh thank. From 4 am end the girl in this activist start assembling at berlin Central Station ready to board a train to say show me. That in his hands yeah. He doesnt feel like a gathering of football hooligans they insist its only the police who use violence theyve lost faith in peaceful. A little bit anxious that because of course doing these blockades of civil disobedience its a different form of protest because weve seen that marching doesnt you know bring a change if we need to if thats a form of action i take. And yeah but were going to be like thousands of people so im really looking for today. None of them know their assigned target yet coordinators will use an encrypted app to message them to make it harder for police to stop. An hour into the journey they start putting on red beautiful eyes this is just one of 6 groups heading for the new sation coal fields. So in order to be more flexible and more effective with our pockets trend were splitting up a direct offering nurse actor colors for the record we are 5000 people maybe perhaps here in the strength of. One of the reasons for the uniforms is to make it harder for police to identify. Many ask us not to film their faces and start scratching out the fingerprints and then. Just leave it for you to flee a scary thing else get our i. D. s. Arriving at the station they still havent been told their destination but at a given signal they split in 2. Ok im ok with that one group rushes down the road to drool the main police force away while Daniels Group cuts into the forest. Of. Police awaiting at the forestay. But a lower use both players lets the crowd rush through. Suddenly were at the age of a giant coal mine and theres not enough police to stop the. Frustrated some resort to pepper spray and bats and. I. Love. To have. My. Times oh you. Guys. Dont. Want to just park door but the 1st action has been successful and youll keep our belief of the mine but the entire mine is now called staff and elsewhere in the region there are 5 other things is talk of the other mines power stations and wildlife crossings its going to be up. For the next 10 hours they bring moose say she is cold industry to a standstill c. Its a symbolic act colleagues struction and burning soon resumes. But the message is as much for the government as the corporations call is going to wind up so now. The German Government wants to support to call industry but theres a huge social movement in the way if that and what we see in germany is that the. Change for Climate Justice didnt come from a cover it was fodder for one by a strong source we are part of that in fact the government is under intense pressure to show the transition the green party is demanding a maximum of 10 use but germany is still light years ahead of countries planning to expand coal production. Its not a question of if cull goes the way. The worlds biggest economy was put on hold. Deregulating industries of old delivered new growth for a president who promised greatness again. But the coronavirus pandemic has seen resurgence replaced with a recession as the world eagerly watches on to see out either president ial candidate might revive the flagship u. 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