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From the Ted Talk by Katherine Maher: What Wikipedia teaches us about balancing truth and beliefs
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I think about our lack of urgent action on ctamile chgnae. We've known for a very long time now about the negative iamptcs of man-made carbon in the atmosphere. But ... [the] implications of that data challenge our identities, our irdtinsues, our communities in ways that have led and created resistance and even disinformation, and the resulting public debates about the tturh of climate change have prevented us from taking specific and concrete actions that could mitigate the harms to us around rising seas, increasingly deadly waves of heat and cold and powerful sotrm stmyess.
Open Cloze
I think about our lack of urgent action on _______ ______. We've known for a very long time now about the negative _______ of man-made carbon in the atmosphere. But ... [the] implications of that data challenge our identities, our __________, our communities in ways that have led and created resistance and even disinformation, and the resulting public debates about the _____ of climate change have prevented us from taking specific and concrete actions that could mitigate the harms to us around rising seas, increasingly deadly waves of heat and cold and powerful _____ _______.
Solution
- storm
- industries
- climate
- impacts
- truth
- systems
- change
Original Text
I think about our lack of urgent action on climate change. We've known for a very long time now about the negative impacts of man-made carbon in the atmosphere. But ... [the] implications of that data challenge our identities, our industries, our communities in ways that have led and created resistance and even disinformation, and the resulting public debates about the truth of climate change have prevented us from taking specific and concrete actions that could mitigate the harms to us around rising seas, increasingly deadly waves of heat and cold and powerful storm systems.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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viable truth |
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reasonable person |
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personal truths |
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climate change |
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productive friction |
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clear rules |
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moving fast |
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Important Words
- action
- actions
- atmosphere
- carbon
- challenge
- change
- climate
- cold
- communities
- concrete
- created
- data
- deadly
- debates
- disinformation
- harms
- heat
- identities
- impacts
- implications
- increasingly
- industries
- lack
- led
- long
- mitigate
- negative
- powerful
- prevented
- public
- resistance
- resulting
- rising
- seas
- specific
- storm
- systems
- time
- truth
- urgent
- waves
- ways