Post #2332130
2023-01-12 14:35 UTC
Replies (40)
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@tbaxter@mastodon.social 2023-01-12 14:39
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social I think one of the problems with people comprehending this and understanding it is that all the photos we see don't look real.
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@squareflair@mastodon.online 2023-01-12 14:43
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Reminded of Oblivion
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@squareflair@mastodon.online 2023-01-12 15:08
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfkWFWPncbQ
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@hughster@mastodon.social 2023-01-12 15:55
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social I've been finding this from Wikipedia, compared against Google Earth historical imagery, fascinating. You can watch entire villages, roads, railways, even Autobahns slowly being wiped off the face of the earth… and then, years later, watch the craters being filled in and brand new villages, fields and roads appearing as if they'd always been there. #Garzweiler #Lützerath https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Garzweiler
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@jimmy@neon.ink 2023-01-12 15:56
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Where does all that earth go? Wild.
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@billheywood@mastodon.online 2023-01-12 15:56
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social For this, Germany shut down low carbon nuclear plants And they have the Green Party in government cheering on the digging up and burning of the dirtiest brown coal Madness 🤯
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@pberry@mastodon.cloud 2023-01-12 15:58
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social The wind turbines in the top left is a nice touch.
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@swirlz@skull.website 2023-01-12 16:00
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social holy shit
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@starlily@mastodon.social 2023-01-12 16:06
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social The destruction of habitable land is represented twice in this photo. It reminds me of Appalachian mountain top removal in the US. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/the-violent-remaking-of-appalachia/474603/
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@apisurfer@hachyderm.io 2023-01-12 16:08
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social wow, the scale is unreal
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@adamrice@c.im 2023-01-12 16:14
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social If you watched the show Westworld, you saw one of these looming in the background (during Season 1, I think). These machines seem like something out of science fiction. Nope.
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@grammasaurus@mastodon.social 2023-01-12 16:14
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Yes, it’s shockingly huge. Similar in scale to mountaintop removal (for coal) in West Virginia in the US, or the mammoth copper mine/pit in Utah
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@DieGeisterhafte@troet.cafe 2023-01-12 16:19
This Video shows a drone flight over the area... its already about 5 years old, but quite impressive, because it puts the neighbouring Landscape into relation... https://youtu.be/iUZWb6_OVg0 https://troet.cafe/@DieGeisterhafte/109664264363263815
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@Aedius@lavraievie.social 2023-01-12 16:22
Thanks for sharing! It's interesting ☺️ @Meyerweb@mastodon.social the engine in the center is roughly 250 meters long :D https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
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@moliver@hachyderm.io 2023-01-12 16:27
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social But no nuclear power plants because they are environmentally unsound?
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@DSWadeLPC@mstdn.social 2023-01-12 16:28
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social wow! That's unbelievable!
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@crimann@mastodon.social 2023-01-12 16:45
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Those damn windmills far in the back, totally destroying our beautiful landscapes... 🙈
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@charlesroper@indieweb.social 2023-01-12 16:45
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Mind boggling.
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@yetzt@vis.social 2023-01-12 16:50
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social you don't know the song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow
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@Schubertsworld@mastodon.ie 2023-01-12 16:50
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Each shovel of the wheel on the front of the gigantic digger is as large as a entire railway carage!
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@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone 2023-01-12 16:52
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social see also https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/109671433057680076
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@MacNaBracha@mastodon.scot 2023-01-12 16:59
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social The plans by the old DDR to remove a village near my in-laws' home in Sachsen were a fraction of this. Hard to see this as the only way forward.
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@wadewainio@mastodon.social 2023-01-12 17:06
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social I can’t even comprehend the scale of this.
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@Warycat@mastodon.scot 2023-01-12 17:10
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social leave the carbon in the ground!
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@dpscifi@universeodon.com 2023-01-12 17:17
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social We still do this in America too. Montana, Idaho, Texas, North Dakota. Lots of them. Time to end coal.
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@qwertzalotl@mas.to 2023-01-12 17:18
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Some more information from the radio channel Deutsche Welle in English: https://www.dw.com/en/big-coal-and-the-battle-for-l%C3%BCtzerath/a-64330168
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@anthony@bitbang.social 2023-01-12 17:22
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social they're just lowering and flattening the country
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@jackscerebellum@infosec.exchange 2023-01-12 17:24
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social where did all the land go? Where does it get piled up until they close the mine and put it all back? They put it back, right? (Padme meme)
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@RyunoKi@layer8.space 2023-01-12 17:26
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social They claim wind turbine would disturb the landscape. Therefore we have to burn coal instead 👀🙄 I'm not kidding.
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@kaipmdh@hachyderm.io 2023-01-12 17:34
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social those mines utilize the largest and heaviest equipment in the world. It's simultaneously really impressive and terrifying
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@leovanlierop@mastodon.nl 2023-01-12 17:42
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social This town Immerath, I made this picture in 2016, has already been swallowed up by the hole. 😢
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@constantorbit@hachyderm.io 2023-01-12 17:42
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social This is obscene.
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@duncan_blues@norden.social 2023-01-12 17:46
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social and yet even this photo doesn't show the dimensions of the entire dig site. By the way: each "tooth" of the excavator is big enough to pick up an entire compact car. Just for perspective.
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2023-01-12 17:52
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social this photo is relatively good but you really have to go to one of the panoramic points nearby and look at it. Photos cannot convey the sheer DEPTH of this destruction.
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@johnnydark@home.social 2023-01-12 17:55
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social I appreciate you posting this. I had seen the attached view and it was hard to get my head around what else was happening in the area.
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@largo@mstdn.social 2023-01-12 17:57
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social Literally just looks like the unobtanium mine from Avatar.
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@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange 2023-01-12 18:01
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social That's a scene from an alien invasion function. Aliens land and destroy everything beautiful.
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@ArenaCops@infosec.exchange 2023-01-12 18:07
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social And all that devastation of nature & grown residential areas just for mining brown coal, probably the dirtiest fossil fuel, to be used to generate electricity. #ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet #Lützerath #Lutzerath #FossilFuels
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@WolfgangFeist@hessen.social 2023-01-12 18:10
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social This is REALITY for decades. You can easily find the sites using e.g. google maps. Some of the few man-made assets you can see from space. People decided "not to care"; as long as gasoline is cheap, electricity is up and our buts are kept warm. There are alternatives. But, it takes time and we would have to decide to realize these: https://passipedia.org/efficiency_now/the_big_picture
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@tabularasa@kolektiva.social 2023-01-12 18:18
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social doesn't even look like there's that much coal in there.