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Am 14.10.22 um 10:28 schrieb Dietz Proepper:
>> Kohleverbrennung durch die Grüne Partei- etwa
>> alle Ökologen und Klimaforscher in aller Welt kommen da aus dem
>> Kopfschütteln nicht heraus, wenn man die internationale Presse
>> verfolgt.
> Na dann nenn' mal Deine Alternativvorschläge. Und Tipp - lies nochmal
> nach, was Frau Thunberg wirklich gesagt hat ...


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/world/europe/germany-coal-energy-climate.html?searchResultPosition=1


Also schon mal nicht Braunkohle. Das ist das, was wir gerade machen.

Netter Artikel in der New York Times von gestern. Kommst Du ran?

Auch die 179 Kommentare sind interessant.

Nicht vergessen: die NYT ist äusserst linksliberal und ecology-minded.


"LÜTZERATH, Germany — For months, die-hard environmental activists have 
camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village 
in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the 
country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit 
coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms.

They had reason to be optimistic. Mass protests led the German 
government to step in and save an old-growth forest from coal expansion 
just two years ago. And the Green party notched its best showing ever in 
elections last year, a sign of how fighting climate change had become a 
winning political issue in Europe’s largest economy.

“If there were 50,000 on the street, politicians would have to do 
something,” said Eckardt Heukamp, 58, the last farmer remaining in 
Lützerath, who put up some of the protesters in apartments on his 
property. Others built tree houses, pitched tents or moved into 
abandoned houses in the village.

But the hoped-for surge in protesters never materialized. And last week, 
the government effectively sealed Lützerath’s fate by announcing that 
RWE, Germany’s largest energy company, needed the coal under the village 
— to make up for gas that had stopped flowing in from Russia.
The war in Ukraine, and the looming prospect of a winter without cheap 
Russian fuel, has cooled enthusiasm in Germany for greener policies, at 
least for now. In a nation that has pledged to wean itself off coal 
entirely by 2030, it has been an abrupt retreat — and for some, a 
difficult one.

“Putin’s war of aggression is forcing us to temporarily make greater use 
of lignite so that we save gas in electricity generation,” said Robert 
Habeck, the German economy minister and a former leader of the Green 
party, referring to the low-grade coal under the village. “This is 
painful but necessary in view of the gas shortage.”
Russia once supplied more than half of Germany’s gas imports — a major 
source of fuel for heating. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine set 
off a chain reaction of European sanctions and Russian countermeasures, 
that flow was shut off. From the start of the war, the German government 
knew it would have to scramble for fuel to get through the coming winter.
In June, Mr. Habeck announced the reopening of some coal plants — a 
bitter pill after the Greens’ success, just months earlier, at getting 
the new government to speed up its exit from coal by eight years. When a 
drought this summer compounded energy jitters by slowing coal transport 
on rivers, the government gave cargo trains carrying coal and other 
fuels priority over passenger ones.


And yet so far, there has been little public backlash.

A poll taken this summer found that 56 percent of Germans were in favor 
of turning coal plants back on, with just 36 percent against. That 
compares to the 73 percent of the population who supported ending coal 
use “as soon as possible” in a 2019 poll.

Part of the reason for the lack of protesters in Lützerath may have been 
wariness among many about taking on a losing battle.

“We’re hearing from many that they simply can’t face it,” said Cornelia 
Senne, a theologian who recently led an overnight church service outside 
Mr. Heukamp’s front door. “With all that’s going on, some people cannot 
bear to watch another catastrophe unfold.”
Though tens of thousands of climate activists marched in cities across 
Germany in late September, they focused their demands mainly on issues 
like climate justice for developing countries and accessible public 
transport — not the end of coal in Germany.

Since the crisis began, Germany has seen a nearly 5 percent rise in 
coal-generated electricity. Coal currently accounts for nearly a third 
of all electricity made in Germany.


Much of that coal comes from places like the Garzweiler mine near 
Lützerath, which is owned by RWE and where some of the world’s biggest 
digging machines continuously work the sprawling 12-square-mile pit.

For decades, when coal was a way of life in much of Germany, residents 
of communities like Lützerath accepted the inevitability of coal mining, 
including a legal requirement to move and make way when state 
governments struck deals with energy companies like RWE. Since World War 
II, some 300 German villages have been razed for the coal beneath them.

But activists had hoped to draw the line in Lützerath, once a village of 
about 90 people, and make the fight to save it a cause célèbre. Even if 
they failed, it seemed, the town might be the last German village to be 
wiped out for coal mining.

Even many climate activists concede that Germany will need to use more 
so-called “hard” coal this winter. But they insist that does not justify 
the demolition of Lützerath, which sits above deposits of lignite, the 
more polluting, softer variety.

“We are in a schizophrenic situation: We are going for a 2030 exit, but 
we are still allowing RWE to go for lignite in Lützerath,” said Karsten 
Smid, a German climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace. “If you are 
doing this for the energy crisis, you don’t need Lützerath’s coal.”

Calculations by energy experts published in August suggested that the 
coal under Lützerath is actually not needed even with a short-term 
increase in demand this winter.

German officials, however, suggest that any increase in coal emissions 
will be offset by the fact that RWE has agreed to the 2030 deadline for 
an end to coal use.

While emissions from coal will likely increase this winter, Andrzej 
Ancygier, a Berlin-based analyst at Climate Analytics, says it is too 
early to know by how much.

“At this point crunching the numbers doesn’t make sense yet, because 
there are just too many factors,” said Mr. Ancygier, citing weather 
conditions and the question of when France will be able to reactivate 
its huge fleet of nuclear power plants and begin exporting the 
electricity they generate to Germany.

Mr. Ancygier said changes to rules on burning coal will not affect 
Germany’s long-term progress on renewable energy, which he predicts will 
continue to make up an ever-bigger portion of Germany’s power mix. 
German lawmakers agreed to a new set of rules in July promoting 
renewables by making them more lucrative for smaller producers.

But small and medium-sized businesses worry they will be facing 
bankruptcy before they can make it to warmer weather, and households are 
preparing for power outages if the winter is exceptionally cold.

The protesters in Lützerath — balaclava-clad environmental activists, 
middle-class residents from nearby towns and a religious community that 
recently carried a cross around the village — say they are exhausted by 
their efforts but plan to keep fighting.

One activist, who refused to take off his white face covering or give 
his real name out of fear of legal retribution, has lived in a treehouse 
in Lützerath since the spring, and said he was prepared for a showdown 
with the police when the bulldozers finally come.

Even with the sound of the mining machines in the distance, Mr. Heukamp 
had stubbornly refused to give in, planting crops in the spring and 
harvesting in the summer and fall. He harvested the last of this 
season’s wheat in August.

But at the beginning of this month, Mr. Heukamp finally gave up, packing 
up his equipment and abandoning his family farm.

Blaming state politics for the decision to go ahead with the destruction 
of his farm, he said: “If they had wanted to save this village, they 
could have done it.”

RWE has not said when the bulldozers will move in to level the farm Mr. 
Heukamp left behind."
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