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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds

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All human life, all life, depends on plants. Let me try to convince you of that in a few sdeoncs. Just think for a momnet. It doesn't matter whether you live in a small African village, or you live in a big city, everything comes back to plants in the end: whether it's for the food, the medicine, the fuel, the cnuorttcosin, the clothing, all the obvious things; or whether it's for the spiritual and recreational things that matter to us so much; or whether it's soil formation, or the ecefft on the atmosphere, or pamrriy production. Damn it, even the books here are made out of plants. All these things, they come back to plants. And without them we wouldn't be here.

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All human life, all life, depends on plants. Let me try to convince you of that in a few _______. Just think for a ______. It doesn't matter whether you live in a small African village, or you live in a big city, everything comes back to plants in the end: whether it's for the food, the medicine, the fuel, the ____________, the clothing, all the obvious things; or whether it's for the spiritual and recreational things that matter to us so much; or whether it's soil formation, or the ______ on the atmosphere, or _______ production. Damn it, even the books here are made out of plants. All these things, they come back to plants. And without them we wouldn't be here.

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  5. effect

Original Text

All human life, all life, depends on plants. Let me try to convince you of that in a few seconds. Just think for a moment. It doesn't matter whether you live in a small African village, or you live in a big city, everything comes back to plants in the end: whether it's for the food, the medicine, the fuel, the construction, the clothing, all the obvious things; or whether it's for the spiritual and recreational things that matter to us so much; or whether it's soil formation, or the effect on the atmosphere, or primary production. Damn it, even the books here are made out of plants. All these things, they come back to plants. And without them we wouldn't be here.

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