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From the Ted Talk by Johan Rockström: 10 years to transform the future of humanity -- or destabilize the planet

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Back then we really thought we had more time. The warning lights were on, aetuolbsly, but no unstoppable change had been triggered. Since my talk, we have inenaiscrg evidence that we are rapidly moving away from the safe operating space for humanity on earth. ctamile has reached a global crisis point. We have now had 10 years of record-breaking climate extremes: fires blaze in Australia, srieiba, California and the Amazon, floods in cniha, Bangladesh and India. We're now enduring heat waves across the entire northern hemisphere. We risk cnrssiog tipping ptonis that shift the planet from being our best resilient friend, dampening our iaptmcs, to start working against us, amplifying the heat.

Open Cloze

Back then we really thought we had more time. The warning lights were on, __________, but no unstoppable change had been triggered. Since my talk, we have __________ evidence that we are rapidly moving away from the safe operating space for humanity on earth. _______ has reached a global crisis point. We have now had 10 years of record-breaking climate extremes: fires blaze in Australia, _______, California and the Amazon, floods in _____, Bangladesh and India. We're now enduring heat waves across the entire northern hemisphere. We risk ________ tipping ______ that shift the planet from being our best resilient friend, dampening our _______, to start working against us, amplifying the heat.

Solution

  1. absolutely
  2. siberia
  3. crossing
  4. points
  5. climate
  6. impacts
  7. increasing
  8. china

Original Text

Back then we really thought we had more time. The warning lights were on, absolutely, but no unstoppable change had been triggered. Since my talk, we have increasing evidence that we are rapidly moving away from the safe operating space for humanity on earth. Climate has reached a global crisis point. We have now had 10 years of record-breaking climate extremes: fires blaze in Australia, Siberia, California and the Amazon, floods in China, Bangladesh and India. We're now enduring heat waves across the entire northern hemisphere. We risk crossing tipping points that shift the planet from being our best resilient friend, dampening our impacts, to start working against us, amplifying the heat.

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