Caption

So-called 1.5°C border on the edge of the lignite mining area at the Garzweiler II open-cast mine, the village of Lützerath is to be dredged away, all buildings except for a farm have been demolished, resistance camp of activists from Lützerath lives, resistance against demolition, Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Oct 18, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24I04_220

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

120,7Mb (6,5Mb) / 26,5in x 17,7in / 7952 x 5304 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty building buildings structure construction constructions village villages settlement settlements unhealthy Farmyard farm farms cropping farm cropping farms border borders border station frontier boundary politics politics alternative energy alternative energies renewable energy green energy power generation power generations energy production power supplier electricity provider power suppliers energy supplier energy company RWE RWE Power AG power supply electricity supply power supplies energy supply brown coal lignite brown coals coal coals open cast mining strip mining opencast mine opencast mines open cast resistance opposition emission emissions exhaust gas exhaust gases waste gas waste gases flue gas mining mining pollutant pollutants contaminant climate climates air pollution air pollution environment protection environment protection environmental protection environmental conservation environmental pollution environmental pollution pollution pollution of the environment environmental contamination ecocide environmental destruction ecocides global warming global warming environment environment North Rhine-Westphalia NRW Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia German mining minings Europe Europe's village town place spot climate protection climate control climate protection climate change climate change political demolition area demolition areas demolition ground demolition site activist activists ecofriendly eco-friendly environmentally friendly Environmental friendly break breaking breaks demolition break breaks demolitions break-off energy source energy sources european carbon dioxide CO 2 carbon dioxides CO2 emission emissions environmental pollution ecological damage environmental pollutions power industry energy industry power industries demolished tear down tearing down tears demolish demolishing demolishes production productions extraction fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fossil fuels camp camps Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD renewable sustainable sustainable regenerative environmental politics environmental politics ecological awareness environmental awareness energy politic energy politics energy transition Energy turnaround sustainability environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage hamlet hamlets environmental issue environmental issues activism Jüchen Garzweiler Garzweiler surface mine Garzweiler surface mine Garzweiler opencast lignite mine polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful Erkelenz particulate matter fine dust Central Europe Middle Europe coal phase-out climate crisis Strip mining lignite Strip mining lignite lignite open-pit mining Opencast lignite mining open-cast lignite mine opencast lignite mine Opencast lignite mining area Alternative scene aborted