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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Greta Thunberg defies German police as she fights for lost cause

(Credit: Bernd Lauter—Getty Images)

The abandoned community of Lützerath in western Germany is nothing more than a tiny speck on the world map, but it can now call Greta Thunberg an honorary guest.

That’s because its muddy soil formed the latest prominent battleground in her crusade to protect the environment: beneath the fields lie vast deposits of one of the most potent climate killers known to man—lignite coal. 

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