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| Subject: The delightful coal mine that ate the useless Hambacher forest Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:24 am | |
| More than a third of Germany's electricity is still produced by burning coal - mostly dirty brown lignite - and environmental activists are fighting to change this. A small area of forest not far from the Dutch border has become the focal point of their campaign. It's almost a uniform that they're wearing - heavy boots, dark trousers, a hooded fleece and a scarf covering nose and mouth. There are three of them: Mona, Omo and Jim. They appear to be in their early 20s, and they say they want to change the world. "We're fighting capitalism and the big companies who are ruling the world and destroying it for profit," says Jim. We're sitting under the trees of the Hambacher Forest, in the west of Germany, 30km (20 miles) from the city of Cologne. They all live in the "Hambi", as they call it, in tree houses like the one above us, nestling in the branches of an oak.
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48931062
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