Assignment: The village that came back from the dead
In Germany 300 villages have been destroyed since the Second World War because of the coal that lay beneath them. Sometimes there鈥檚 a reprieve. But does it come too late?
In Germany some 300 villages have been destroyed since the Second World War because of the coal that lay beneath them. Villagers have grown up in the knowledge that one day their house will be torn down and generally they鈥檝e accepted the deal on offer: the mine buys their house and they build a new one in a brand-new village. But the demands of climate change and the need to curb CO2 emissions has changed attitudes to fossil fuels. In one region west of Cologne all mining activity will cease by 2030, 15 years earlier than planned. Which means that villages designated for demolition are now going to survive. That news isn鈥檛 always welcome. Tim Mansel has visited one of them.
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