{"id":2810,"date":"2016-10-31T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/limityjsmemy.cz\/?p=2810\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:29:09","slug":"declaration-25th-anniversary-limits-mining-limits-not-enough-want-end-coal-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.limityjsmemy.cz\/en\/2016\/10\/declaration-25th-anniversary-limits-mining-limits-not-enough-want-end-coal-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration on the 25th anniversary of the limits: the mining limits are not enough. We want the end of the coal era"},"content":{"rendered":"

The climate of the whole planet is changing<\/strong>. Temperatures in 2015 were 20% higher than the 20th century average, and July of this year was the world\u2019s hottest month since records began<\/strong>. The results of global warming aren\u2019t only expansion of deserts, melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Its increasingly destructive impacts \u2013 extreme weather, droughts, floods, crop failures and other humanitarian disasters, including wars \u2013 can now be felt by each and every one of us. Scientific consensus is that our planet is rapidly warming and human activity \u2013 particularly burning fossil fuels<\/strong> and clearing forests \u2013 are its primary causes. To even stand a chance to avoid catastrophic temperature rise of over 2 degrees Celsius, the target of last year\u2019s Paris Climate Agreement, scientists argue that we must keep over 80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground. The fossil fuel industries, however, have other ideas.<\/p>\n

This is why more and more people are taking the matter into their own hands<\/strong> and confronting the industry directly. The movement for climate justice is spreading worldwide<\/strong> and uses a diverse range of peaceful tactics to demand the end of fossil fuel dependence. During May 2016, people on six continents gathered for \u201cBreak Free from Fossil Fuels\u201d, the greatest environmental civil disobedience action so far<\/strong>. Thousands of people tried to stop extraction in coal mines or block their transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s happening everywhere, and Czech Republic won\u2019t be an exception.<\/h2>\n

Twenty-five years ago<\/strong>, on the 30th of October 1991, the first democratically elected government of Czech Republic dealt with a terrible relic of the Communist party regime and set territorial boundaries for the extraction of brown coal in the northern Czech Republic<\/strong>. This magnificent act determined clear limits where coal mining could not exceed and entered into a social contract with inhabitants of the affected regions, who until then were under constant fear of eviction from their homes as mines had been extended. Many villages have disappeared into coal mines throughout Czech Republic before.<\/p>\n

Those boundaries served their purpose for a quarter of a century. Thanks to the courage and resolution<\/strong> of inhabitants of Horn\u00ed Ji\u0159et\u00edn and Litv\u00ednov, and the support from people throughout the whole Czech Republic, they resisted all efforts to break the territorial boundaries of mining, with the unfortunate exception of the B\u00edlina mine.<\/p>\n

Ongoing mining has never just been an issue endangering health and homes of locals. It is a problem worldwide, one of the main contributing causes of climate change and all the devastation that comes with it. It is for this reason that we, on the anniversary of when the boundary limitations were set, are going a step further:<\/p>\n

The boundaries of mining itself are not enough.<\/h2>\n

Mining and burning of fossil fuels cannot continue all the way to 2055. The Czech Republic still continues to operate obsolete coal power plants<\/strong>. Every day, these dinosaurs contaminate our environment and lungs with heavy metals, particulate matter and greenhouse gasses. That said, we still export over 20% of energy produced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Instead of the nonsensical appeasement of coal barons we see today, we should instead be pushing the red line on the map back again and end extraction as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Today, a clean, low-impact and realistic alternative is readily available. According to a recent study, Czech Republic can produce the vast majority of electricity it requires from renewable sources<\/strong>, therefore reducing emissions of greenhouse gases close to zero<\/strong> by the end of the first half of this century. We can close power plants in Po\u010derady and Chvaletice right now. In fact, we should take it as an easy and realistic first step.<\/p>\n

What matters is that we can<\/em> make this first step, and nothing can excuse the inaction on the matter so far.<\/p>\n

We therefore demand:<\/h2>\n

The end of the age of coal.<\/strong> We demand immediate protection of endangered villages and closure of Chvaletice and Po\u010derady power plants as the fastest achievable steps toward complete cessation of mining and burning coal in our country.<\/p>\n

A transition to renewable sources.<\/strong> We ask Czech Republic to sign up to the plan to switch to clean sources of energy, as seen with the German Energiewende, ending the dependence on dirty energy.<\/p>\n

Justice for regions and residents affected by mining.<\/strong> It\u2019s unacceptable to let most of the profits be taken away from damaged areas where the wealth was sourced, instead lining the pockets of coal barons or being swallowed by the state. We demand the government increase taxation for extraction of fossil fuels until the mines are closed forever and use the funds to develop and reimburse the region of \u00dast\u00ed, as well as ensure suitable jobs be given to those made redundant by mine closures.<\/p>\n

The time has come to draw another red line and create new boundaries. Now we are the boundaries. Along with tens of thousands people on this planet, we are pushed by the seriousness of climate crisis to move from words to action.<\/p>\n

Inspired by other brave acts of civil disobedience during the Break Free mobilisation last year, we have decided to act and to stand up to the coal industry. The age of coal is almost over. Let\u2019s end it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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