They occupy excavators, set up barricades and protest for the preservation of a village that has long been doomed. In Lützerath, west of Cologne, climate activists want to prevent the now uninhabited place from being excavated for the lignite underneath. It is a fight against the inertia of the fossil world. But one that the activists will probably lose. Also because of him.

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