By Morgan Henley, Member of the Executive Committee of the Czech Young Greens Imagine you live in Horní Jiřetín, a town of around 2500 people in northern Czech Republic that is set to be destroyed if the Czech government decides to remove its current limits on coal mining. The town sits upon reserves of lignite…
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A March to be Remembered
The Climate March in London – part of a global effort to make politicians once more take climate change seriously – looked impressive. It also showed the scale of alliances that are being created over this issue. As always, I arrived late. If everything would go according to plans, I – along with my partner…
The Anti Coal Human Chain
How do you get 7000 people to unite against two of the biggest countries in Europe? Try to build coal mines on their homes. I recently joined nearly 7000 others from across Europe to make a ‘human chain’ between the two villages of Kerkwitz, Germany and Grabice, Poland. This Human Chain was assembled to protest…
Nuclear or coal-fired plants ?
Comparing nuclear energy with classic technologies is like comparing a modern airplane with a car. When something bad happens everybody hears about it and you have many casualties at such an event. But with a car you might have several accidents with one to four injured or dead passengers. When you summarize all this, flying…