STORY: Against the background of the UN climate conference in Egypt, numerous people demonstrated on Saturday at the Garzweiler opencast mine against the use of fossil fuels and the demolition of another village. The appeal under the motto “Protect Lützerath – comply with the 1.5 degree limit!” Several hundred climate protectionists followed, who campaigned for the preservation of the threatened village with posters and banners. “It makes my stomach turn and I really can’t believe that so much destruction is happening to coal, which is at least not needed for the time being.” “That means a politician can always only think in terms of legislative periods. But we as a world have to save this world together with the African continent, with the Russian continent, with the Asian continent. That means we all have to save this ship Earth together somehow preserved. And that’s a crime against our grandchildren, what we’re doing here. And we can’t go on eating the world the way we eat it.” “Well, we see now that it’s almost like a lunar landscape. And if our whole planet actually becomes a lunar landscape, then that’s no longer life for humans. And of course that’s the fear you have to have when the Industry carries on like this, so with the earthworks here and the whole area that is digging up, digging up the whole village. Lüzerath must be preserved.” But achieving that will be difficult. Because the current lignite agreement for North Rhine-Westphalia allows the village of Lützerath to be excavated. Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck and his NRW colleague Mona Neubaur recently reached an agreement with RWE to bring the phase-out of coal forward by eight years to 2030. In return, however, two lignite-fired power plants may be operated longer than planned. And Lützerath is dredged. However, these young people also want to make it clear in their protest that coal is the wrong way overall. On Friday, the siblings known as “climbing children” called for a much more ambitious climate protection policy. 11-year-old Zozo and her 13-year-old brother have been committed to climate protection since 2019, especially in connection with the Fridays for Future movement.