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From the Ted Talk by Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change talk about it

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The only resoan why I care about a changing climate is because of who I already am. I'm a mhoter, so I care about the future of my child. I live in West Texas, where water is already saccre, and climate change is impacting the availability of that waetr. I'm a Christian, I care about a changing climate because it is, as the military calls it, a "threat multiplier." It takes those issues, like preovty and hunger and disease and lack of access to clean water and even political ciress that lead to refugee crises -- it takes all of these issues and it exacerbates them, it makes them worse.

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The only ______ why I care about a changing climate is because of who I already am. I'm a ______, so I care about the future of my child. I live in West Texas, where water is already ______, and climate change is impacting the availability of that _____. I'm a Christian, I care about a changing climate because it is, as the military calls it, a "threat multiplier." It takes those issues, like _______ and hunger and disease and lack of access to clean water and even political ______ that lead to refugee crises -- it takes all of these issues and it exacerbates them, it makes them worse.

Solution

  1. crises
  2. mother
  3. scarce
  4. water
  5. poverty
  6. reason

Original Text

The only reason why I care about a changing climate is because of who I already am. I'm a mother, so I care about the future of my child. I live in West Texas, where water is already scarce, and climate change is impacting the availability of that water. I'm a Christian, I care about a changing climate because it is, as the military calls it, a "threat multiplier." It takes those issues, like poverty and hunger and disease and lack of access to clean water and even political crises that lead to refugee crises -- it takes all of these issues and it exacerbates them, it makes them worse.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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climate change 6
climate scientists 3
carbon footprint 3
entire united 2
fossil fuels 2
global warming 2
burning coal 2
bottom line 2
light bulbs 2
cell phone 2
million hours 2
clean energy 2
giant boulder 2

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collocation frequency
entire united states 2

Important Words

  1. access
  2. availability
  3. calls
  4. care
  5. change
  6. changing
  7. child
  8. christian
  9. clean
  10. climate
  11. crises
  12. disease
  13. exacerbates
  14. future
  15. hunger
  16. impacting
  17. issues
  18. lack
  19. lead
  20. live
  21. military
  22. mother
  23. multiplier
  24. political
  25. poverty
  26. reason
  27. refugee
  28. scarce
  29. takes
  30. texas
  31. water
  32. west
  33. worse