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From the Ted Talk by Robert Swan: Let's save the last pristine continent
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And 1,000 kilometers away from the safety of land, disaster strikes. The acirtc Ocean mltes beneath our feet four months before it ever had in history, and we're 1,000 kilometers from setafy. The ice is cnrhisag around us, grinding, and I'm thinking, "Are we going to die?" But something clicked in my head on this day, as I realized we, as a world, are in a survival situation, and that felenig has never gone away for 25 long years. Back then, we had to march or die. And we're not some TV sivourvr program. When things go wrong for us, it's life or death, and our brave African-American Daryl, who would become the first acrimaen to walk to the North Pole, his heel dropped off from frostbite 200 klicks out. He must keep going, he does, and after 60 days on the ice, we stood at the nrtoh Pole. We had done it. Yes, I became the first person in history stupid enough to walk to both peols, but it was our success.
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And 1,000 kilometers away from the safety of land, disaster strikes. The ______ Ocean _____ beneath our feet four months before it ever had in history, and we're 1,000 kilometers from ______. The ice is ________ around us, grinding, and I'm thinking, "Are we going to die?" But something clicked in my head on this day, as I realized we, as a world, are in a survival situation, and that _______ has never gone away for 25 long years. Back then, we had to march or die. And we're not some TV ________ program. When things go wrong for us, it's life or death, and our brave African-American Daryl, who would become the first ________ to walk to the North Pole, his heel dropped off from frostbite 200 klicks out. He must keep going, he does, and after 60 days on the ice, we stood at the _____ Pole. We had done it. Yes, I became the first person in history stupid enough to walk to both _____, but it was our success.
Solution
- feeling
- crashing
- arctic
- safety
- north
- poles
- american
- survivor
- melts
Original Text
And 1,000 kilometers away from the safety of land, disaster strikes. The Arctic Ocean melts beneath our feet four months before it ever had in history, and we're 1,000 kilometers from safety. The ice is crashing around us, grinding, and I'm thinking, "Are we going to die?" But something clicked in my head on this day, as I realized we, as a world, are in a survival situation, and that feeling has never gone away for 25 long years. Back then, we had to march or die. And we're not some TV survivor program. When things go wrong for us, it's life or death, and our brave African-American Daryl, who would become the first American to walk to the North Pole, his heel dropped off from frostbite 200 klicks out. He must keep going, he does, and after 60 days on the ice, we stood at the North Pole. We had done it. Yes, I became the first person in history stupid enough to walk to both Poles, but it was our success.
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