This short series illustrates the aftermaths of the brown coal exploitation from 1980-2015 in an industrialised area in Brandenburg, Germany.
To mine 220 million tons of brown coal, one of the most harmful ways to produce energy with a huge climate damaging impact and comparable the highest carbon dioxide emissions, several villages had to be resettled during this time period and a huge region now fights with the aftermaths of these immense industrial pollutions.
From ground level, some parts of the landscape look rather normal and the far reaching consequences only become distinct from an aerial perspective. The minig operator Vattenfall (since 2000) is now in the duty of the renaturation and reclamation process of these wrecked landscapes, it will take decades of years though for the nature to recover from these human interventions.
