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From the Ted Talk by John Marshall: 3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change

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If the intelligent aliens in my story were also intelligent at communications, they would say to us, "Hey, Earthlings, pay attention, you're building up a massive blanket of pltolioun that's oteernaivhg your home. And it's going to hurt the people and the things that you love. You did this and you can fix it." We simply have to let our fellow eight billion inhnitatbas of our home know what's happening. We have no choice. And when we do, we'll achieve the public will necessary to take on this csoalosl but winnable fhigt for our future.

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If the intelligent aliens in my story were also intelligent at communications, they would say to us, "Hey, Earthlings, pay attention, you're building up a massive blanket of _________ that's ___________ your home. And it's going to hurt the people and the things that you love. You did this and you can fix it." We simply have to let our fellow eight billion ___________ of our home know what's happening. We have no choice. And when we do, we'll achieve the public will necessary to take on this ________ but winnable _____ for our future.

Solution

  1. colossal
  2. pollution
  3. inhabitants
  4. overheating
  5. fight

Original Text

If the intelligent aliens in my story were also intelligent at communications, they would say to us, "Hey, Earthlings, pay attention, you're building up a massive blanket of pollution that's overheating your home. And it's going to hurt the people and the things that you love. You did this and you can fix it." We simply have to let our fellow eight billion inhabitants of our home know what's happening. We have no choice. And when we do, we'll achieve the public will necessary to take on this colossal but winnable fight for our future.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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climate change 11
climate communications 2
ozone hole 2
global warming 2

Important Words

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  7. choice
  8. colossal
  9. communications
  10. earthlings
  11. fellow
  12. fight
  13. fix
  14. future
  15. happening
  16. home
  17. hurt
  18. inhabitants
  19. intelligent
  20. love
  21. massive
  22. overheating
  23. pay
  24. people
  25. pollution
  26. public
  27. simply
  28. story
  29. winnable