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problems. if it curious, i'm, tom is helping the rest of those channels. we've got new videos every friday tried to plan. it's a the, as people here are being taken for a ride test to make sure that this is the gemstone area for germany and for your event for the water system. we info as such as the pen here in canada because we can't afford to carry on this way. bytes of lights. multi billionaire alone must, once it's company tesla to expand the giga factory in germany, knocked down parts of this forest. turning what was once a sleepy little germantown upside down. it's a battle of david versus goliath. the

24 year old roman is ready to climb up to his current home. he has been living in a tree house in the forest for the past month. that's not 1st of all, i look for a certain date and that's how it feels, deeply happy in the woods that ever since i got here. i've also felt fully grounded . but a part of this forest is to be cut down to expand a factory. that is building climate friendly electric cars. a contradiction says roman who is set to start his master's, specializing in environmental protection. he and others are occupying the trees as a form of civil resistance to tesla. many of the activists cover their faces when the cameras are on. roman's name is also only an alias. testifies, this new testament is graded, selling what they're doing as a solution,

is the green alternative to what we already have. we can't afford to carry on this way and that's once like a long term, not everyone will be able to have a car come over. as long as it's because in time sheet on auto hub. ready ready ready ready wire parts of this forest endangered. let's run through it. in 201911, most adults. but tesla would be coming to green height of a small town. just east of berlin. mosque bought land from the state of brandenburg to build a massive factory. this plant produces tesla's model. why? for the european and international market, a mid range s u v, which was the world's best selling car last year. currently, tests that produces around $300000.00 electric cars per year at clean hide and wants to more than tripled. this number of scaling, the production process would require tesla to expand the giga factory, knocking down a part of a forest for a logistics center and a train station. this is some things we'd hide a resident model we,

la jolla will not stand for. we met her because she found the local citizens initiative and as campaigning loudly against any further expansion since day one, she's been fighting against the giga factories, destruction of the environment, as she calls it, the young people living in the camp, the calm, her natural allies. this on toy, as with us, it's great that so many young people are committed to preserving the forest and water act as why does this lots of and that's why these are the most of this forest . and the area up ahead is in the drinking water protection zone. the some goose entire i'm st. qualify for beach. not just the trees or a point of concern in the ground beneath live vital water supplies. if these were to be contaminated, tens of thousands of people might find themselves without drinking water. she fears

isn't comstock. it's a bottle of david versus goliath. it's a fight that just makes you feel powerless and angry. at times i went over it knocked in a recent poll held include height of over 60 percent of citizens voted against the test. those plans to expand the planned even though tesla, hudson scaled down its plans, the company is still set on expanding its facility. we stay notes here for these. our size pops here. we are standing in front of this darned factory on the i want to tell you understand about the survey showing the residents of golden hide. i didn't want an expansion, idaho one and we'll continue to find it out, are getting kind of test or should stay on the site that's already been brewing and not clear anymore. forest china and vitamin vitamin, who we want to hear teslas side of the story. but our interview requests go on and search the company is in from us for not replying to media or requests. however, what is known is that they built

a brand new industrial water filtration system. it allows the good factory to recycle almost all of its industrial waste water. but despite tesla's environmental efforts, the giga factory continues to face heavy resistance. in march, a power mask was set on fire. a radical leftist group played responsibility for the attack, which halted production at tesla for days, costing the company millions in moscow called the group the quote, dumbest eco terrorists on earth for stopping the production of electric vehicles and visited the plant include high to the attack was condemned by local authorities and marked the biggest escalation so far . we want to hear an expert's take on the environmental situation. i need water scientist, my team push. he says the area has been heavily impacted by climate change. and

despite recent reins is usually one of the driest regions in germany. to me cuz i'm a public than usual to build a fence to be in a water protection area. and people are worried about test. so now is all the body of water where the factory is located is one of the few we have in this region. but if it were to become polluted, that'd be nothing to replace it with a flip, some good of that. but the factory also has the porters among the local population . to my knowledge, i screwed up. my name is albert cooler and from green, high to innovation in the future are important to me and i think it's important. tim, good, the testing is here i've is trula as part of the different citizens initiative together with his friend to be us live. he follows and

documents the development of giga berlin. so be you definitely see the test that everyone's talking about. test tesla, also instruments has everything, testing that makes many decisions that provoke discussions we can do without god being can they say one of their goals is the battlements information that has been pulled out by some of the test. let's opponents their initiative is they are to inform fellow citizens and enable affect driven debate grounded on a scientific basis. they say, just like the protesters in the camp, they are also worried about climate change. as other than everyone always says, electric cars can stop climate change on their own. that's true, but public transport can't either. nothing on its own can stop climate change. we need lots of different solutions and it is a whole. ready transportation is one of the world's largest contributors to carbon emissions. electric vehicles are seen as part of the solution by many tesla which

specializes in these is the world's most valuable car company. currently, there are 5 giga factories operating around the world. tests. let's giga factory in germany opened in 2022 and is the only one in europe. test will make sure that this is a gemstone for the area for germany, for europe, and for the wells. the plant has generated economic growth in the region around 12000 people currently work a test line between height alone. tesla is such a big name. even jeremy's chancellor old offshore showed up for the opening of the elect. the mobile electron mobility will shape the mobility of the future. that is clear here today the clot despite the support from the highest levels of government,

the 9000 people actually living and we hired to have very mixed opinions on tesla. the many people we met who refused to speak on cameras, said there was a tear running through the fabric of the town. families and friends are divided into separate calms. some criticize tesla, others be active as judgment. yeah, i think it's a shame, but if it brings any benefits to going high to in the region, i'd say yes and the other i was on went up to spike up, which i was basically in favor of tests are coming here. i still stand by that because it can only advance the region of i was actually a bit against expansion though because i think they should use the space they already have 1st to make sure, you know, i'm not, i'm just rather than protesting, they should be trying to get one of the jobs test was offering. how many members i probably never worked a day in their lives. they should work for 48 years like i did. that entire will just lay about it's good for nothing's going. the,

this is where 2 worlds flush on their way to work. in the giga factory test, the workers have to pass by a t test lab protesters. very few of them ever stop at the info stands to chat with the actors. it's difficult for women to find people to talk to so it's just him and the car except that because if anything is a few that has to be 5 years ago. i would have said testament, amazing. i know them. i don't know. i have a different opinion with alta point than not such a car from these days. yeah, i think that we're simply spoiling a lot of opportunities with excessive individual transport. uh, fox news hall. so i told her own what does it say stuff tests. well filming in front of the main entrance, we are approached by

a test flight employee. hello. i just wanted to wondering what you guys filming, what do you guys up to which outlet you are from? yes, i am from pesa or are you probably are so sorry. to say we don't really have impress department to test. so usually our policy is, uh, i mean everybody has their own realty, obviously, so they can do whatever they want. but we usually have this then, but then nobody really talks to the press. roman says it will be difficult to find common ground when asked what a solution could look like. he tells us the 1st step for him is to stop test was expansion. and then maybe some day to end the production of eaves and instead build trends buses. and trains in what was once the test was giga factory. but it's not realistic. the muscular investigator

search power behind it. one of the richest people in the world has decided this thing should go here. and people eat out of his hand life and i'm going to globally connected and the richest people in the world generally have much more leeway many more context. and we may be having our treehouse of young, i'm almost west and south and so he's back in his world. that's so different from the joint giga factory, the, the forest seems to be peaceful right now. while the fight against the tesla continued this. the curious wells most

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