This is a blogging space of Olivia from Germany.
Hello and 안녕, my name is Olivia and I’m from a small village near Cologne in Germany. It’s called Niederzier and is located next to the biggest lignite opencast mine in Europe.
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| On a school trip in the opencast mine. |
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| Here you can see my home and the three open pit mines in the region. |
This is of course, a special burden on the environment in our region and led to the fact that I dealt with geography early on. Geography was also my first exam subject in my Abitur (German A-Levels) and I always enjoyed our lessons in the advanced class.
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| Our last course trip to Manchester. |
I finished school about half a year ago and will be travelling to Australia
in two weeks. There I will work on a ranch for a few months and then
travel.
Animals have always played a big role in my life, I myself have a cat, two
dogs and ride a craft horse.
I often go on trips with the dogs, for
example also to the open pit mine. A few years ago, there were disputes
between activists and the operating company of the lignite mine. It was
about a piece of forest called "Hambacher Forst".
In the end, the activists convinced and the forest area still exists today. I
hope that in the future we can learn more about geography and thus also
about climate change and our future, and thus ensure that
environmental destruction like this one can no longer occur.
Best regards and feel free to ask anything!:)
Hi Olivia,
ReplyDeletemy name is Miro and I come from New Zealand. I can relate to your experiences of being driven to geography by circumstances of birth, and I commend your efforts. Could you please tell me, how does the current German political climate affect power solutions? For example, I had knowledge that the German government had disbanded nuclear power. Why is this?
Regards,
Miro Thomas Ireson
Hey Miro,
DeleteYears ago, the government abolished nuclear energy in Germany due to the problem of the final storage of nuclear waste and the fear of accidents. Many Germans have supported this decision. Coal-fired power plants are also to be shut down in 2035, but the political situation is very critical at the moment and many parties are changing their opinion, also on coal and nuclear energy. For example, the party that initiated the nuclear phase-out now wants to go back there and the coal phase-out is shifting further back. Since we will probably have new elections soon, it will then be decided how the situation will continue.
Best regards:)
Olivia Jansen