Germany needs coal to replace Russian gas. Windmills and villages are sacrificed along the way.

NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, TISKLAND (Aftenposten): It balances on the precipice, at the end of the path that climate activists have dubbed the road of radicalization. Blue eyes protrude from a shirt that is draped like a Finnish cap around the head. He reaches out his hand in the air.

It seems routine when he and his friends point fingers at the guards of the mining company at the bottom of the mine. With a large homemade slingshot, they shoot stones at the guards if they get too close.