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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design

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The thing is, what I know deep down about sustainable development and about the deep wsdiom of my ancestors, didn't cnoenct with my head. I was doing what most of us do. We get educated in the modern wolrd, modern education, and we think that, for example, climate change can only be solved by science and technology, or at least scecnie and technology alone. Think about it. The world thrived for centuries until logging, mining and other extractive and destructive development ripped resources from the earth. And here we are, looking at experts who advised on that to asdvie to us about the solutions for climate cngahe.

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The thing is, what I know deep down about sustainable development and about the deep ______ of my ancestors, didn't _______ with my head. I was doing what most of us do. We get educated in the modern _____, modern education, and we think that, for example, climate change can only be solved by science and technology, or at least _______ and technology alone. Think about it. The world thrived for centuries until logging, mining and other extractive and destructive development ripped resources from the earth. And here we are, looking at experts who advised on that to ______ to us about the solutions for climate ______.

Solution

  1. science
  2. connect
  3. advise
  4. change
  5. world
  6. wisdom

Original Text

The thing is, what I know deep down about sustainable development and about the deep wisdom of my ancestors, didn't connect with my head. I was doing what most of us do. We get educated in the modern world, modern education, and we think that, for example, climate change can only be solved by science and technology, or at least science and technology alone. Think about it. The world thrived for centuries until logging, mining and other extractive and destructive development ripped resources from the earth. And here we are, looking at experts who advised on that to advise to us about the solutions for climate change.

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