Police in riot gear have begun evicting climate activists from a small village in western Germany that is due to be demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.
Environmentalists say bulldozing the village to expand the nearby Garzweiler coal mine would result in huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.However, a study by the German Institute for Economic Research calls into question the government's stance.
Citing the study and the urgent need to curb global carbon emissions, protesters refused to heed a court ruling on Monday that effectively banned them from the area. Climate campaigners counter that expanding a massive open-cast coal mine goes against Germany's international commitments to reduce emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.Luetzerath "is now the European place of crystallisation for the climate movement," spokeswoman for the Luetzerath Lives activist group Lakshmi Thevasagayam said.
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