I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.
The #TagebauHambach coal mine has a starring role in Jennifer Baichwal's excellent documentary #Anthropocene, which, if you haven't seen it yet, please do. It gives a fair sense of the gargantuan scale of human endeavours:
https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/anthropocene-the-human-epoch