From Mark Lynas’s “new blog on climate change”:http://www.marklynas.org/blog/ (hat-tip “Harry’s Place”:http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2004/08/11/important_new_blog_about_climate_change.php ) comes “this story”:http://www.iht.com/articles/531250.htm of the medieval village of “Heuersdorf”:http://www.heuersdorf.de/English1.html , in eastern Germany, which is threatened by strip-mining for lignite. God knows why anyone should mine dirty, horrible, acid-rain producing brown coal anyway, let alone demolish medieval churches to do so. This story needs wider circulation.