MADRID • A year ago, a little-known 15-year-old Swedish girl in a chequered shirt and pigtails stood before world leaders in a snowy Polish coal town and told them they were blowing their chance to aggressively combat climate change, and their inaction would no longer be tolerated.
"Change is coming, whether you like it or not," she vowed in a blistering three-minute speech that lit a fire under the otherwise sleepy proceedings.
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