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Eric A. MeyerI’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.
Carter Baxter@Meyerweb I think one of the problems with people comprehending this and understanding it is that all the photos we see don't look real.
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Daniel Dahlbom
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Hambach surface mine from the drone 4k
teledyn 𓂀The #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
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I believe there are other sources for this, free, online. Check with Google, trust me, the effort won't be wasted.
Hughster@Meyerweb I've been finding this from Wikipedia, compared against Google Earth historical imagery, fascinating.
You can watch entire villages, roads, railways, even Autobahns slowly being wiped off the face of the earth… and then, years later, watch the craters being filled in and brand new villages, fields and roads appearing as if they'd always been there. #Garzweiler #Lützerath
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Garzweiler
Jimmy Thomas 
@Meyerweb Where does all that earth go? Wild.
TRANSit BIke nerd@jimmy @Meyerweb The landscape in the Rhine valley is extremely flat, open fields after open fields.
But suddenly you see a lonely hill, kilometers long, it's almost reassuring to see something standing out.
But the hill is weird, it's almost geometric, and it's sides lack any sort of erosion channel, the top is extremely regular.
Suddenly I understood : that huge hill standing out in the plain is next to the mine. It's the rejected soil that stood above the coil, rejected and piled on the side.
But suddenly you see a lonely hill, kilometers long, it's almost reassuring to see something standing out.
But the hill is weird, it's almost geometric, and it's sides lack any sort of erosion channel, the top is extremely regular.
Suddenly I understood : that huge hill standing out in the plain is next to the mine. It's the rejected soil that stood above the coil, rejected and piled on the side.
Benedikt@jimmy @Meyerweb they made a little mountain (about 300 meters tall) beside the hole. It’s called Sophienhöhe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophienh%C3%B6he)
billheywood@Meyerweb
For this, Germany shut down low carbon nuclear plants
And they have the Green Party in government cheering on the digging up and burning of the dirtiest brown coal
Madness 🤯
Patrick Berry@Meyerweb The wind turbines in the top left is a nice touch.
xXm0rb!dsw33t!3Xx@Meyerweb holy shit
Lily Star@Meyerweb The destruction of habitable land is represented twice in this photo.
It reminds me of Appalachian mountain top removal in the US.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/the-violent-remaking-of-appalachia/474603/
It reminds me of Appalachian mountain top removal in the US.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/the-violent-remaking-of-appalachia/474603/
Luka@Meyerweb wow, the scale is unreal
adamrice@Meyerweb If you watched the show Westworld, you saw one of these looming in the background (during Season 1, I think). These machines seem like something out of science fiction. Nope.
f*cking b*tch club@Meyerweb Yes, it’s shockingly huge. Similar in scale to mountaintop removal (for coal) in West Virginia in the US, or the mammoth copper mine/pit in Utah
Ghost of a PrincessThis Video shows a drone flight over the area... its already about 5 years old, but quite impressive, because it puts the neighbouring Landscape into relation...
https://youtu.be/iUZWb6_OVg0 https://troet.cafe/@DieGeisterhafte/109664264363263815
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Aedius Filmania ⚙️🎮🖊️Thanks for sharing! It's interesting ☺️
@Meyerweb the engine in the center is roughly 250 meters long :D
moliver@Meyerweb
But no nuclear power plants because they are environmentally unsound?
But no nuclear power plants because they are environmentally unsound?
Debbie Wade@Meyerweb wow! That's unbelievable!
Claudio Rimann@Meyerweb Those damn windmills far in the back, totally destroying our beautiful landscapes... 🙈
Charles Roper@Meyerweb Mind boggling.
yetzt@Meyerweb you don't know the song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow
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Schubertsworld@Meyerweb
Each shovel of the wheel on the front of the gigantic digger is as large as a entire railway carage!
Each shovel of the wheel on the front of the gigantic digger is as large as a entire railway carage!
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Attached: 3 images @[email protected] They need to do a lot better at carbon reduction though https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
Seonaidh 🏴@Meyerweb The plans by the old DDR to remove a village near my in-laws' home in Sachsen were a fraction of this. Hard to see this as the only way forward.
Wade Wainio@Meyerweb I can’t even comprehend the scale of this.
David_Rae@Meyerweb leave the carbon in the ground!
Douglas Phillips Books@Meyerweb
We still do this in America too. Montana, Idaho, Texas, North Dakota. Lots of them. Time to end coal.
We still do this in America too. Montana, Idaho, Texas, North Dakota. Lots of them. Time to end coal.
qwertzalotl@Meyerweb
Some more information from the radio channel Deutsche Welle in English:
https://www.dw.com/en/big-coal-and-the-battle-for-l%C3%BCtzerath/a-64330168
Anthony, of course@Meyerweb they're just lowering and flattening the country
Matt Stewart@Meyerweb where did all the land go? Where does it get piled up until they close the mine and put it all back? They put it back, right? (Padme meme)
@jackscerebellum @Meyerweb nope - they build a artificial mountain beside it. It’s calls Sophienhöhe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophienhöhe.
The hole will be filled with water. It will take about 40 years.
Ryuno-Ki@Meyerweb
They claim wind turbine would disturb the landscape.
Therefore we have to burn coal instead 👀🙄
I'm not kidding.
Kai@Meyerweb those mines utilize the largest and heaviest equipment in the world. It's simultaneously really impressive and terrifying
Leo van Lierop@Meyerweb This town Immerath, I made this picture in 2016, has already been swallowed up by the hole. 😢
Denis 🌏@Meyerweb This is obscene.
Duncan Blues@Meyerweb and yet even this photo doesn't show the dimensions of the entire dig site.
By the way: each "tooth" of the excavator is big enough to pick up an entire compact car.
Just for perspective.
mirabilos@Meyerweb this photo is relatively good but you really have to go to one of the panoramic points nearby and look at it. Photos cannot convey the sheer DEPTH of this destruction.
John Dark@Meyerweb I appreciate you posting this. I had seen the attached view and it was hard to get my head around what else was happening in the area.
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Dennis Faucher 
@Meyerweb That's a scene from an alien invasion function. Aliens land and destroy everything beautiful.
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@Meyerweb And all that devastation of nature & grown residential areas just for mining brown coal, probably the dirtiest fossil fuel, to be used to generate electricity.
#ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet #Lützerath #Lutzerath #FossilFuels
Wolfgang FeistThis is REALITY for decades.
You can easily find the sites using e.g. google maps. Some of the few man-made assets you can see from space.
People decided "not to care"; as long as gasoline is cheap, electricity is up and our buts are kept warm.
There are alternatives. But, it takes time and we would have to decide to realize these:
Genderless Potato@Meyerweb doesn't even look like there's that much coal in there.