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From the Ted Talk by Susan Ruffo: The ocean's ingenious climate solutions

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And so what does that mean? Basically, what we need to do is think about not how to save the ocean, but instead how the ocean can actually help us in this fight against caimtle change. Already, the ocaen is absorbing 25 to 30 percent of the CO2 that we release into the atmosphere. It is the world's largest carbon sink. The ocean has also absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. So it is basically hpienlg to keep the planet habitable, at least for now. And yet, when we think about climate action and climate strategies and climate plans, we often ovolorek the ocean and lavee it out, because somehow we think that saving the ocean is something else we have to do, not a core part of our climate strategy.

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And so what does that mean? Basically, what we need to do is think about not how to save the ocean, but instead how the ocean can actually help us in this fight against _______ change. Already, the _____ is absorbing 25 to 30 percent of the CO2 that we release into the atmosphere. It is the world's largest carbon sink. The ocean has also absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. So it is basically _______ to keep the planet habitable, at least for now. And yet, when we think about climate action and climate strategies and climate plans, we often ________ the ocean and _____ it out, because somehow we think that saving the ocean is something else we have to do, not a core part of our climate strategy.

Solution

  1. helping
  2. leave
  3. climate
  4. ocean
  5. overlook

Original Text

And so what does that mean? Basically, what we need to do is think about not how to save the ocean, but instead how the ocean can actually help us in this fight against climate change. Already, the ocean is absorbing 25 to 30 percent of the CO2 that we release into the atmosphere. It is the world's largest carbon sink. The ocean has also absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. So it is basically helping to keep the planet habitable, at least for now. And yet, when we think about climate action and climate strategies and climate plans, we often overlook the ocean and leave it out, because somehow we think that saving the ocean is something else we have to do, not a core part of our climate strategy.

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