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From the Ted Talk by Angel Hsu: Cities are driving climate change. Here's how they can fix it

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This disparity has real consequences. geren spaces are often public spaces, and they're known to be associated with social and economic well-being. They can also reduce crime and ftesor saoicl cohesion. Trees also can help to fitelr harmful air pollution and provide evaporative cooling and sdahe and relief for some of these high temperatures. So not only are those poorer neighborhoods at a greater dtvdanigsaae from access to green space, but they're also more vulnerable to air pollution and climate change.

Open Cloze

This disparity has real consequences. _____ spaces are often public spaces, and they're known to be associated with social and economic well-being. They can also reduce crime and ______ ______ cohesion. Trees also can help to ______ harmful air pollution and provide evaporative cooling and _____ and relief for some of these high temperatures. So not only are those poorer neighborhoods at a greater ____________ from access to green space, but they're also more vulnerable to air pollution and climate change.

Solution

  1. filter
  2. disadvantage
  3. social
  4. green
  5. foster
  6. shade

Original Text

This disparity has real consequences. Green spaces are often public spaces, and they're known to be associated with social and economic well-being. They can also reduce crime and foster social cohesion. Trees also can help to filter harmful air pollution and provide evaporative cooling and shade and relief for some of these high temperatures. So not only are those poorer neighborhoods at a greater disadvantage from access to green space, but they're also more vulnerable to air pollution and climate change.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
climate change 5
carbon dioxide 4
dioxide emissions 3
urban areas 3
united states 3
air pollution 3
tree cover 3
heat waves 2
major urban 2
national governments 2
carbon neutral 2
urban heat 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
carbon dioxide emissions 3

Important Words

  1. access
  2. air
  3. change
  4. climate
  5. cohesion
  6. consequences
  7. cooling
  8. crime
  9. disadvantage
  10. disparity
  11. economic
  12. evaporative
  13. filter
  14. foster
  15. greater
  16. green
  17. harmful
  18. high
  19. neighborhoods
  20. pollution
  21. poorer
  22. provide
  23. public
  24. real
  25. reduce
  26. relief
  27. shade
  28. social
  29. space
  30. spaces
  31. temperatures
  32. trees
  33. vulnerable