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‘How dare you’: Greta Thunberg rips world leaders at UN for ‘failing’ on climate change

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019.

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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019.

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit today with a speech that indicted world leaders for what she said is their inaction to combat the causes and effects of climate change:

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