I'm 7 Minutes in and you guys haven't mentioned the coal mine that uses 170 times more water than the Tesla plant

How does DW not see the obvious difference between a man made plantation forest and a natural forest.

If Tesla is going to make cars for the European market I would think it’s probably better for the environment if they are made in Europe rather than in China and then shipped to Europe.

The area is designated for industry for nearly 25 years. BMW actually wanted to build a factory there in 2004 and in 2001 the people of Grünheide were in favour of this plant. Nobody was protesting then. The "Bebauungsplan" is more than 20 years old, so there was plenty of time to protest. And this plantation is not a forrest!

The trees were planted for paper production. They are going to be cut down.

They should protest infront of Mercedez, BMW factories too. Should tell them to produce only busses and trams.

This is totalling misleading. Anyone who knows anything about this situation knows that it’s not a forest, it’s a plantation. These trees were planted to be cut down. You have a bunch of students who just want to feel like they’re doing something but have no idea what they’re doing. They should not only be listened to, but they should be forcibly removed from the trees.

It is a plantation of single species, not a forest. DW show some numbers like total plantation area vs current plant area and future expansion, or a 15 year water level chart to see the plant's impact. Anyone can have an opinion.

Why do you keep calling a tree plantation, a forest? I rather have Tesla increase biodiversity elsewhere like they’ve done in the past and will do again.

am i the only one or you guys also laughed when the girl asked the police to resign and join them? i mean why they are living in another world than us?

From where Roman gets his money ? Others need to work to get by, camping in the woods for months is not feasible for some mortals..

It’s always something … The German car companies are behind this harassment

Why are they not fighting ICE manufacturers like VW, Mercedes or BMW?

Vehicles are going to be built. Either in China where environment is largely ignored, or in Europe under enforced regulations. Push the manufacturers out of Europe, you end up with weaker Europe and considerably worse environment. Some greens are living with their heads in clouds. They also managed to close nuclear plants in Germany, cleanest and safest power production after hydroplants, replaced by coal plants.

Anti-capitalist or anti-American but obviously not eco-activists; that term is about as believable as the product label "Environmentally Friendly".

They’re angry because they can’t think of anything better as an alternative to oil.

I love how polite everyone is. Great protest. I may not agree with them. But they are going about it the right way.

Germany/EU: why can we compete technologically with the US or China?? Also Germany/EU:

Can't see the forest for the trees 🌲🌲🌲“An expression used of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole”. I don’t live in Grünheide and realize that this plant will change their quiet town forever. I also respect that the activists want to save the environment. However, we have all been thoroughly brainwashed by the oil and gas industry. If it weren’t for Tesla forcing the automotive industry to change, we would be driving fossil fuel cars for the next 50 years, so they need to keep making this change happen. I agree with the gentlemen at 8:06/20:35 minutes, there needs to be a number of solutions put forward to stop climate change.

I don’t believe what these environmentalists call for. Compare to ICE car and many old manufacturers, Tesla plant is much more environment friendly.

The question is who sponsors them. My bet is BMW, VW, Porsche.

Cooking with gas, Shouldn't they be pedaling a bike to drive a generator

Tesla should have chosen Poland instead of Germany in the first place.

He will shut it down as quickly as it has been built.

I am quite certain there are already developed industrial lots in the region that could be used instead of this forest.

That Forest looks a lot like a monoculture to me.

Let me guess if the factory goes away, the citizens will complain their town is dying but no cameras will show up.

"Proudly sponsored by VW" sounds appropriate for this video

But they don't mind Volkswagen factories?

Elon better bring robots here cos people definitely dont want to work here

Anyone noticed the Rockstar Games sticker in the yellow water level indicator? -7:02-

Why do they confirm the physical stereotypes? Exactly as one would imagine

“We can’t continue this way… Not everyone can have a car” ok then be consequent and go demonstrate in front of each of the car factories in Germany… Look, they’re opening a new road in Wuhlheide to expand the city cutting through a “real” forest where I play with my child, I was demonstrating there last week, and you were instead in your tree-house in a tree plantation. I was complaining about the fact that creating even more roads doesn’t bring down traffic congestion, not about an EV company manufacturing less pollutant vehicles which we one way or another need some millions of

Amazing they couldn’t have found a brown field site to build on.

Imagine the polution and how the plantation will look once the activists leave the area.

These folks don't realize they work for big oil. Such a shame to see passion so misdirected.

They live in the twilight zone and don't see the big picture.

So the environmental activists want more petroleum cars?😂😂😂 Im confused

Aaaahahahaha natürlich is BWL-Bernd für die Fabrik ich schmeiss mich weg😂

Demokratie ist so wichtig. Auf der einen Seite sitzen 50 Menschen im Baum. Auf der anderen Seite arbeiten 12.000 Menschen und über 250.000 Menschen kaufen jedes Jahr ein Auto von Tesla Berlin.

Couldn't Tesla use a brown field site?...

a battle of david vs goliath ... let us remember... David used projectiles to take down goliath ... 🤔 fire would have worked too....

Germany is a free country, you can pretend to be an environmentalist and intentionally slow down the transition to affordable and sustainable energy solutions. Tesla do not have to explain how to carry out your own emissions reduction strategy. You, environmentalists am sure are educated person to know what to do.

No mention of where the funding comes from… (Everyone suddenly looks at VW)

Why don't they climb and occupy the heavy machinery in the coal mine next door just boggles the mind. 😂😂😂😂 But we know what's up.

Tesla doing great for environment. I Love the nature. He is the one making things possible. Kindly let Tesla grow. Tesla also making solar panels and more to reduce pollution. We need this type protest in other countries, not in Germany. Germany well aware of Nature and Manufacturing.

Its not about the environment. The truth is, its about anti-capitalism. Its leftism. They have no other purpose and this activism gives them that purpose.

Near my town in Poland 300 hectars of a 30+ year-old forest were cut down to make room for the Izera car factory. They claimed it was NOT a real forest, because it was planted by humans on previously industrially used land. I don't care. The trees were producing oxygen nevertheless. It certainly looked every bit like a forest. Now with the new government it's not clear if the factory will ever be built. And the trees are gone possibly forever. In an area which is severly polluted already. I'm all for development in my country and Izera as a brand and possible a Polish success, but I just can't imagine they couldn't find those 300 hectars elsewhere, where there was no forest...

They just wanna go camping ⛺️

Very strange to me that they decided to give Tesla space to build in the forest. Germany is a big country. How they couldn't find a more deserted place.

Who's paying for the food?

Follow the money. Check who’s paying them to be staying in those tees. Won’t be surprised at all to learn that it’s the legacy auto makers who are funding them through a third party.

Maybe if Roman dressed and looked like a mentally sound person, employees might be more receptive

Eco activists against electric mobility, which should be emission free.

Tesla might not exist in the near future anyway with this EV demand, at least as a car manufacturer

17:48 He just wants a Tesla. Elon, give this guy a Tesla and a job. The protest will be over.

❤️❤️❤️ sending you love from California 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Wait wait wait did that “expert” just say where he is is turning into a semi arid climate 😂😂😂😂 does he know what a semi arid climate looks like! 😂

Really strange atmosphere/vibe at the Tesla plant.. I get people being late for work but that wasn’t it. It reminded me of when reporters come to visit places in Ukraine or Romania where something illigal is going on. I’m guessing Tesla doesn’t allow their employees to speak to the press even a country like Germany? I find that super odd and a red flag if that’s the case. Even government employees are allowed to speak to the pres in normal countries. Even the military is. Maybe the video made it look like this but if true it’s even bigger red flag than Musk and anything he’s involved in is inherently.

So who gets to choose who’s allowed a car then? These are just anarchists.

This is not the high culture you expect to be displayed by German society

Why do you state electric vehicles as eco friendly? They're not. This will become painfully obvious over time. Why are you jumping to the conclusions the marketing feed you? Have you actually investigated these claims and calculated the environmental cost of electric cars from construction to end of life cycle?

Environment activist who use plastic container for their foods.. good job 👍

Keep fighting Musk, Germans! 👍👍👍

mein frau at 11:40 is a real one

A society as devided as can be. The howling over the depletion of economy, the lack of qualitative jobs, the lack of technological advancement is met with as a heightened and absurd need to put environmental values above the economic and thus general betterment. A schism between the german society which not only creates furious opinion exchanges, political complications, but also hinders the country to move on and decide on what the road should be. Both sides as vulptures, never daring to make a compromise, both blindly following their ideologies and lacking understanding of the other side. It never occurs to them, nor to any other western country in that sense, that a compromised strategy, containg both ideas and values, is the best way. Were it so that they tolerated one another, then they would warmly welcome Tesla and simply apply finitude(bureaucracy, regulations) so that the eco-side is represented as strong as the economical one. But no! No factory at all is better. Sleepy babies, people of no true opinion and despairing lackers of the self and its duty to relate itself to society in a good and resepcted manner. The ideology over the self, the ideology over the nation, the ideology over all. And i wonder, on their death-beds will they regret, will they recognize? This goes to each single individual.❤

I’m pro Tesla here. We’ve got to build it somewhere and we can’t just destroy one area of factories in order to build another. That’d take even longer. The damage done by building factories like these is massively offset by what they produce, if they can do it. This is clearly just ‘not in my backyard’ (NIMBY) politics going on here. Same thing happens with some people against wind turbines and solar panels.

Is this the camping channel

I was all for the “we can do better than this…” for the climate narrative, up until minute 18, where the problem switches from “what policy and technology shall we develop” to “how to restrict individual’s autonomy of transport”… we ran that experiment, governments must bud out of personal matters and serve individuals (first) then society, and not society over individual…

it's important to understand we live in democracy and there are voices that we need to ignore. The amount of damage german climate activists have done to environment is insane. German actvists will rather have coal plant than a nuclear facility

Are the activists receiving money/support from Tesla's competitors?

Remember when these Eco activists protested against all the nuclear leading to Germany needing to burn more coal 😂😂😂.

Stay 🤗 strong

At about 1:00, should be "so called" or "what musk claims are" - "Climate friendly electric cars" are an oxymoron. But thanks for covering this.

Why didn’t Roman just walked to the company instead of taking bus? And using the drill machine instead of hammer? And the other climbing equipments? Fighting against capitalism through capitalism. Such clowns.

Electric bad for environment. Oil good.

kids, you'll be working for Tesla in a couple of years so stop breaking the balls 😘

But why he also cooks with Gas ?

Are they tree elves? 😂

Musk has driven the energy change over when it seemed impossible. We have to transition, it will be painful.

Stop him !!!! Please Germany

Manufactured suffering. Just to feel like you are contributing to life...

You need to talk to your translator. "darn" isn't the translation for "Scheiße" or vice versa as far as i am aware. edit: spelling

Eco-terrorists not eco-activists.

You seem to be lucky to fd 50 people without working living in a tree house nice life . Those people working for tesla don't have a choice they probably have families to feed hard choice welcome to the harsh world we live in . Can you feed all those people working for tesla school there children and provide medical aid . I live in Africa and weneed employment how many people do you employ living in your tree

let's continue building everything in China.. with their own pollution standards.. that's going great

I love this guy’s definition of common ground is that Elon completely agrees with him and does everything he wants.

They are typical rich university students that they have never worked one day of their life.

Good for them. They are sacrificing their time and efforts to protect what's important to them and their community.

Boycott Tesla If share Holder keep shares just for voting against everything Elon Musk wants

Put this on his media site let's see if he really means freedom of speech or not Haha.

Ecoactivists never been to Norilsk😅 Oh what am I talking about? !!😅

You are just a drifter

"We can't afford to keep going like this" - *proceeds to turn on gas stove and pour oat milk*

Porsche forever

Tesla workers may be under a contract close and the spécial orders to talk about the matters concerning and confronting Elon and what he does and his accoubtability. But even if he dies not talk to his défense, it clear and logic, no need to be an expert to see that it is not eco friendly at all what he is doing there. Or they may be too attached to their payement wages, what if they can be fired or suit if they speak and défiance what is foing on in Tesla gigafactory. Its occult. It kept secret. And that is the définition of à sect instead of just a factory. How they work, hiw are the newbies welcomed, what isbtheir commun goals and mindset, what are the background of those people, what are they thoughts of Elon, have they all talked and been confrlbted directly to him, etc. Do they have discerment to know that imperfect as he is, Elon and all his teams can make mistakes as a whole no matter hiw intelligent and smart they are ? Error is human. And even though you can disagree with peolle and groups of people, and any type of ideology, what should we accept yours ? Yiu are not God. Elon is not God. He thinks snd ithers do think too. Your money being used does not mean you are right. You may even use it for wrong, even wantibg to do good. Thats the commun point between thise who have done great evil, it wzs hidden and masked and fueled behind by "good intentions". But apart from the words that come from Elon's mouth and speeches, look at the fruits, the produits of what he acts out, thé results adter all those words pronounced. What are the resukts ? Are they good, right and worthybof praise, pure, Lively ? In my opinion its kot Lively at all this ditopic pictural being unashamedly by Elkb Misk. And I dont think he have the goûts to repent, or to back down when knowibg and being convinted of his wrongdoings. If he does, respect, because we are hulan beings, its okay to make mistales, but Do you have the boldness to admit your mistakes and turn away from itvto right, no mqtter what the out comes are cab yiu stand for the Truth ?

Yeah, move that factory here in Chicago. We need jerbs. I mean jobs. We need to be able to afford houses and have decent savings accounts. Let the germs be farmers. We have a lot of abandoned factories.

Totally a hit piece. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Yet tesla has massive layoffs due to fact that he gonna keep the same thing going on every like now there are others going back to regular jobs and other places for jobs

I’m still surprised that people believe that Tesla is actually environmental friendly. Not that I have issues with building something of actual use, but Tesla… let me laugh hard ! You ought to consider something as useful for the environment in all the aspects of its life cycle. Perhaps, Tesla should talk about the impact of mining and the impossibility of recycling batteries, electrical components, chips, etc.