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In this episode we will talk with two organizers from the German climate movement. We will focus on their struggle to save the planet and their fight against a pending doomsday clock. For those that don\\u2019t know, the Doomsday Clock was a cold war symbolic representation of the likelihood of human-made catastrophe, used to represent the state of affairs between Moscow and Washington D.C. Today, we want to talk about a Doomsday Clock that has developed to symbolize the relationship between capitalist society and nature.

We feel it\\u2019s an apt symbol to talk about the big problem facing the climate movement today. That is, on the one hand, developing popular force and organization takes on time. Spadework \\u2013\\xa0the podcast\\u2019s name \\u2013 refers to civil rights organizer Ella Baker\\u2019s conceptualization of organizing as the long and difficult preparatory agricultural labor of digging, seeding, irrigating, and mending that makes a harvest possible.\\xa0

And yet, we are actually running out of time. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we have until 2030 \\u2013\\xa0just 9 years \\u2013\\xa0to diminish emissions by 45% and reach net zero by 2050 in order to avert utter ecological catastrophe.\\xa0

Kim Solievna, she is a climate activist from Berlin and a spokesperson for Ende Gel\\xe4nde, a climate justice alliance that fights against coal mining and for carbon emission decreases. Kim was most recently involved in a struggle against the opening of a coal energy plant earlier this year.\\xa0

Katharina Stierl a nurse and a union activist, who became a member of Fridays for Future during her studies and currently works for Verdi\\u2019s climate campaign, aiming to connect climate and union activists in a meaningful way.\\xa0

Fridays For Future on Twitter @Fridays4Future

Follow Ende Gel\\xe4nde on Twitter here @Ende_Gelaende\\xa0

For a helpful link on Ende Gel\\xe4nde\\u2019s organizing approach and practices, read here: https://interventionistische-linke.org/sites/default/files/il-klimabroschuere_english_print.pdf