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From the Ted Talk by Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change

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When I was about eight years old, I first heard about something claeld ciatmle change or global wianrmg. Apparently, that was something humans had created by our way of living. I was told to turn off the lights to save energy and to recycle paper to save resources. I rbmmeeer thinking that it was very strange that humans, who are an animal species among others, could be capable of changing the Earth's climate. Because if we were, and if it was really happening, we wouldn't be talking about anything else. As soon as you'd turn on the TV, everything would be about that. Headlines, radio, npwaeepsrs, you would never read or hear about anything else, as if there was a world war going on. But no one ever talked about it. If burning fssiol feuls was so bad that it threatened our very ectsxiene, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn't it made illegal?

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When I was about eight years old, I first heard about something ______ _______ change or global _______. Apparently, that was something humans had created by our way of living. I was told to turn off the lights to save energy and to recycle paper to save resources. I ________ thinking that it was very strange that humans, who are an animal species among others, could be capable of changing the Earth's climate. Because if we were, and if it was really happening, we wouldn't be talking about anything else. As soon as you'd turn on the TV, everything would be about that. Headlines, radio, __________, you would never read or hear about anything else, as if there was a world war going on. But no one ever talked about it. If burning ______ _____ was so bad that it threatened our very _________, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn't it made illegal?

Solution

  1. warming
  2. newspapers
  3. fossil
  4. climate
  5. existence
  6. called
  7. remember
  8. fuels

Original Text

When I was about eight years old, I first heard about something called climate change or global warming. Apparently, that was something humans had created by our way of living. I was told to turn off the lights to save energy and to recycle paper to save resources. I remember thinking that it was very strange that humans, who are an animal species among others, could be capable of changing the Earth's climate. Because if we were, and if it was really happening, we wouldn't be talking about anything else. As soon as you'd turn on the TV, everything would be about that. Headlines, radio, newspapers, you would never read or hear about anything else, as if there was a world war going on. But no one ever talked about it. If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn't it made illegal?

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