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in response to global warming germany is in the process of closing down its coal industry for many years the country's principal source of energy especially in the form of the communist east but there's 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 germany's cold war.

only germany's in just field. a region of factories smokestacks and shop it's. so this is just for the visitors now just as a result this is. and like thousands of men before me i'm going down a coal mine. this is stepping into the bowels 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 remake the west 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 he'd die and that my friend was a horse of mine are my father was a miner my son was from by luck or 6 years but. that's that's the end cause you have gone all mining in permanent black coal mines any more how do you

feel about that oh the turret so. i told me he was very steady areas here. this is no longer a working. mine and some fellow ics 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 shot to a sun. 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 company's last spokesman in colson's 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. it's like a baby. germany's transition from calls started in 2007 when the cull corp 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 gulp 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 mine its 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 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 who's 31 is looking forward to his new life representing workers the titles like the telephone. mission then to hear him say quarterback love has been disloyal shown. to not to listen to the play an alpha instead of give this a label big. but elsewhere in the country mining continues. because germany is still europe's biggest producer of brown coal.

i'm 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. to communism collapsed in 989 and germany reunited towns like shrem big did it tough as the christina hints here explains. quote i had just bought. into a further thought rushed home taught aided hurt kept as i am in the shade and for stand in delhi hours or. as a slight us or does not dare. think i answered under an industry in class and

mostly on the textile industry. pots and. brown coal is profitable because it isn't deep on the ground it's dug up near the surface taken to nearby power plants and burned to boil water to make electricity. but it's even dirtier than black culture. the problem isn't the steam you see pouring out of cooling towers it's the carbon emissions you can't send. in the cosmopolitan capital berlin environmentalists have been demanding politicians shouted down. we need to end fossil fuels right now we don't have any time to waste anymore we can't wait another 18 years so we're 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 we're doing right now is to prepare ourselves for this action. doesn't 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 cut emissions since the paris climate change agreement of 2015. germany can't hope to meet its paris targets unless it closes all this so

a commission representing politicians corporations use local government has just sounded the death knell for brown call but crucially in what's 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 it and how they feel down for you to do it does is it. was one of the members of the coal commission threshed out the compromise. and i and molly because i have to have. told us.

was a. big smear insists it's much better than waiting for cold inevitable long term wind. the government has agreed to kick in 40000000000 euros to kick start new industries in the brown coal region. and. auntie in a given of her end result at a starched and enzyme household fire may our then pour ya boy be outside and most us ima. get is just counting on this is just her i know and it's. and get leaked the region is already seeing the fruits of germany's embrace of renewal energy wind 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 deck a device in a given me i have also come to tense in a in a game at home. and there in a title. the reagan hoping to turn the old coal fields into an eco tourism destination as disused mine pits a rehabilitated into artificial likes. the 2038 deadline should give the region plenty of time to adapt. but many activists insist the world can't wait. we have to phase out coal in germany right now if we don't do that it's going to be quite another for the the end of the world as we know it the i.p.c.c. tells us that if we continue burning coal we're running into catastrophic climate change. as the transition details of being worked

out and to go in there announces its next mass occupation will be loose aisha. the announcement doesn't go down well with most locals who learn. how well. absolutely common. safeguard is a security guard at the coal plants he's as passionate about bruce asia as he is about hunting i'm like oh my god blesses us oh. so my god. well there's with many loose ations e 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 meat from its kills. thus the nautilus and the bees are oh and i fell over going to hear. somebody. but my data. says fleiss yeah this is. what's worse and worse life for the bronx a built believes the east was hard done by after reunification between have been avoided by a few hours of my knowledge found in a micro cough or dear to come home fuming you when you try to do what you are not happy about you have a daughter do not think of our part. time vomit fall foul child. people learn to rely on each other and they don't like being pressured by outsiders

less food i know they get on his dolls its vast marketing dollars its holes he allows it does. fine shaft as this is are marked and yes by my left but i'm noble from god it does on my own. i didn't either. must then concede. lend us the democracy ones of us and the condition vanzant of was your holiday. view as formal why doesn't view of. central intelligence who is fresh beauty of. the innocent do you believe new orleans or indeed i was a spaniard in. 2

days before the threatened protest loose ations a staging a counter approaches they've set up a vigil at a power plant slated to close early in 2020. banners proclaiming we live from coal not great fairy tales. are known. to then you know when i give up hope i don't get them got a full time job here. when there's an infant son and then a coil of pop like i get when the phone have. to be loaded for me. in the main loose ation town of compost there's a growing police presence and then not just keeping an eye out for end again and. while it's the day before the big protest and by coincidence across germany school students are going on strike for climate change though in this coal town it's a little more difficult right now the millennial are almost out numbered by police

. in many other cities tens of thousands of students are marching the organize a hear constantine got a good ski has kept his expectations lower. so considering how many people do you think i'm actually thanks i am content with all 250 maybe if we had in the. year that states could dance a lot less than other german cities yes is it difficult to do a protest like this in this whole town yes it does that mean you're 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 cold and not because we all know that you have to end color the question is how fast you have to do it and the answer to my

opinion is that you have to work started this was discussed. mr gandhi was the david. and there you are. all nick didn't know their daughter if you can see he's a cultist always and he was alive until he got. oh never define thank. you not only the bush budget that's been on my. own been on my mind and didn't show misleading and given it given the good news now i'm going to call it. but only once had to go yes. no no no you i've ever done oh here's a lie the $55.00 a year is out that day and yet there is a generational divide. the kids don't remember communism and they don't see

a future in an industry that's heating the planet for now they can tend to make their point in peaceful street matches. was that. ok you are either. you know the home. you thought that night's 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 the lawsuits. the speak. for the well.

i have for years they come in plenty to say no put it to christina henchy a the mayor of tells them. they won't be pressured to stop cold sooner they are cool and will miss stanley almost a 100 that's is i know dead and i was as i have paris speak to you they beat it thank you thanks. from 4 am end the girl in this activist start assembling at berlin central station ready to board a train to say show he. in his hands yeah. he doesn't feel like a gathering of football hooligans they insist it's only the police who use violence they've lost faith in peaceful. a little bit anxious that because of course doing

these blockades of civil disobedience it's a different form of protest because we've seen marching doesn't you know bring a change if we need to if that's a form of action i take. and but we're going to be like thousands of people so i'm really looking for today. none of them know they're a soft target it's 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 we're splitting up the difference actually offering nurse doctor colors for the record we are $5000.00 people maybe apps on 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 on the event. just leave it for you to flee a scary thing else give our i.d.'s. arriving at the station they still haven't been told their destination but at a given signal they split in 2. i woke up and then one group rushes down the road to drool the main police force away while daniels group cuts into the forest. did. police a way to get the forest a. little lower use both players lets the crowd rush through.

suddenly we're at the age of a giant coal mine and there's not enough police to stop the. frustrated some resort to pepper spray and bats and. i. love. to have. my last the last times oh i. thought. i was just part dual but the 1st action has been successful and you'll keep our belief of the mine about the in time on his napco staff and elsewhere in the region there are 5 other things is talk at the other mines power stations and while we process it's going to be up. for the next 10

hours they bring lou say she is cold industry to a standstill 'd. it's 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 ames so now. the german government wants to support to call industry but there's a huge social movement in the way if that and what we see in germany is that the. change for climate justice didn't come from the government it was fought for and won by a strong so she said we are fighting that in fact the government is under intense pressure to shoulder the transition the green party is demanding a maximum of 10 days but germany is still light years ahead of countries planning to expand coal production. it's not a question of if call goes me way.

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