daniel hofinger: we need to end fossil fuels right now, we don't have any time to waste anymore, we can't years, so we're taking direct action to call for the immediate phase-out of coal in germany. ♪ eric: daniel hofinger is an activist with a new kind of protest movement called ende gelÑnde, meaning "game over." ♪ daniel: ende gelÑnde is a mass action of civil disobedience against coal and climate injustice in germany. and what we're doing right now is to prepare ourselves for this action. ♪ eric: it doesn't march in the streets, it uses military-style tactics to occupy coal areas, fielding thousands of disciplined activists in strategic formations to evade police and shut infrastructure down. the movement has put intense pressure on a government already struggling to cut emissions since the paris climate change agreement of 2015. ♪ eric: germany can't 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 coal. but crucially, in what's called the coal compr