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From the Ted Talk by David Lammy: Climate justice can't happen without racial justice

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In the past, the cmtilae crisis never feuraetd at the forefront of my potcliis because it was never one of the most immediate challenges my constituents were facing, or at least it didn't feel like it. Rising sea levels feel unimportant when your bank balance is falling. Global warming is not your concern when you can't pay the htienag bills. And you're not tinikhng about pollution when you're being stopped by the police. And so perhaps this is why as the Black Lives Matter movement roared across the world, there's been so little mention of snaivg Black lives from the climate emergency.

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In the past, the _______ crisis never ________ at the forefront of my ________ because it was never one of the most immediate challenges my constituents were facing, or at least it didn't feel like it. Rising sea levels feel unimportant when your bank balance is falling. Global warming is not your concern when you can't pay the _______ bills. And you're not ________ about pollution when you're being stopped by the police. And so perhaps this is why as the Black Lives Matter movement roared across the world, there's been so little mention of ______ Black lives from the climate emergency.

Solution

  1. featured
  2. politics
  3. climate
  4. thinking
  5. heating
  6. saving

Original Text

In the past, the climate crisis never featured at the forefront of my politics because it was never one of the most immediate challenges my constituents were facing, or at least it didn't feel like it. Rising sea levels feel unimportant when your bank balance is falling. Global warming is not your concern when you can't pay the heating bills. And you're not thinking about pollution when you're being stopped by the police. And so perhaps this is why as the Black Lives Matter movement roared across the world, there's been so little mention of saving Black lives from the climate emergency.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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black communities 2
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climate emergency 2
progressive allies 2
black people 2
air pollution 2
urban areas 2
united states 2
climate movement 2
racial inequalities 2
leadership positions 2
environmental organizations 2
global south 2

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black lives matter 4
lives matter movement 2

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black lives matter movement 2

Important Words

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  3. bills
  4. black
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  6. climate
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  24. police
  25. politics
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  28. roared
  29. saving
  30. sea
  31. stopped
  32. thinking
  33. unimportant
  34. warming
  35. world