Newsletter #2 – 2016
24. December 2015 The climate conference in Paris is over. In the media it was celebrated as a success. We are more sceptical. The fine objective to limit the global warming to 1,5 degress will not be attained with the decisions taken in Paris. There is a danger of the average temperature rising by over 3 degrees. Emissions are supposed to fall only in the future. Instead of acting now the problem will be postponed to tomorrow. The necessary abandonment of fossile resources does not appear in the text. That is no accident: many governments want to secure the profits of the fossile industry rather than decommission coal-mines. If we are serious about our future we need to get active ourselves. In Germany that means stopping lignite mining. For that reason we will go to the Lausitz at Whitsun 2016 and stop the diggers. Continue reading ...