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From the Ted Talk by William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design

Unscramble the Blue Letters

The fueamanndtl issue is that, for me, design is the first signal of human intentions. So what are our intentions, and what would our inetinntos be — if we wake up in the morning, we have designs on the world — well, what would our intention be as a scpeeis now that we're the dominant species? And it's not just stewardship and dominion debate, because really, doniomin is implicit in stewardship — because how could you dominate something you had killed? And stewardship's implicit in dominion, because you can't be steward of something if you can't dominate it.

Open Cloze

The ___________ issue is that, for me, design is the first signal of human intentions. So what are our intentions, and what would our __________ be — if we wake up in the morning, we have designs on the world — well, what would our intention be as a _______ now that we're the dominant species? And it's not just stewardship and dominion debate, because really, ________ is implicit in stewardship — because how could you dominate something you had killed? And stewardship's implicit in dominion, because you can't be steward of something if you can't dominate it.

Solution

  1. intentions
  2. fundamental
  3. species
  4. dominion

Original Text

The fundamental issue is that, for me, design is the first signal of human intentions. So what are our intentions, and what would our intentions be — if we wake up in the morning, we have designs on the world — well, what would our intention be as a species now that we're the dominant species? And it's not just stewardship and dominion debate, because really, dominion is implicit in stewardship — because how could you dominate something you had killed? And stewardship's implicit in dominion, because you can't be steward of something if you can't dominate it.

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Important Words

  1. debate
  2. design
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  4. dominant
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  6. dominion
  7. fundamental
  8. human
  9. implicit
  10. intention
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  15. signal
  16. species
  17. steward
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