{"id":57952,"date":"2023-01-23T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=57952"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:27:03","slug":"lutzerath-is-a-devastating-example-of-the-crimes-committed-by-the-fossil-fuel-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/57952\/lutzerath-is-a-devastating-example-of-the-crimes-committed-by-the-fossil-fuel-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00fctzerath is a devastating example of the crimes committed by the fossil fuel industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Greenpeace activists take part in the special “village walk” to L\u00fctzerath, to which Michael Zobel and Eva T\u00f6ller have been invited: shortly before the cordoning off of the village by the police on January 10. The walk is the ideal opportunity to get into the village
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Last weekend, 35,000 people from all walks of life gathered to defend L\u00fctzerath<\/a>, a small village in western Germany which is the site of a planned demolition to expand mining operations by fossil fuel giant RWE. Even after the rough eviction of the activists who have been occupying the place for more than two years, many others showed up in solidarity to stop RWE from further destroying this small community this week.<\/p>\n\n

The fossil fuel company wants to destroy the village to expand its coal mine, Garzweiler, which is already one of the biggest carbon bombs<\/a> in Europe. Underneath L\u00fctzerath lies 280 million tons of lignite coal<\/a>, the most climate-damaging energy source. And accessing it means expropriating the property of an entire village – which has already been done<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

It also means making it impossible for Germany to stay within its remaining 1.5-compatible carbon budget<\/a>, putting the goal set in the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise below 1.5\u00b0C under serious threat, even though Germany does not need this coal to secure its energy supply.<\/p>\n\n

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