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From the Ted Talk by Amy Smith: Simple designs to save a life
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Now one of the raeosns why there are so few trees is this: people need to cook, and they harvest wood and they make charcoal in order to do it. It's not that people are innorgat to the environmental damage. They know perfectly well, but they have no other choice. Fossil felus are not available, and solar energy doesn't cook the way that they like their food prepared. And so this is what they do. You'll find families like this who go out into the forest to find a tree, cut it down and make charcoal out of it. So not surprisingly, there's a lot of efroft that's been done to look at avlianettre cooking fuels.
Open Cloze
Now one of the _______ why there are so few trees is this: people need to cook, and they harvest wood and they make charcoal in order to do it. It's not that people are ________ to the environmental damage. They know perfectly well, but they have no other choice. Fossil _____ are not available, and solar energy doesn't cook the way that they like their food prepared. And so this is what they do. You'll find families like this who go out into the forest to find a tree, cut it down and make charcoal out of it. So not surprisingly, there's a lot of ______ that's been done to look at ___________ cooking fuels.
Solution
- effort
- reasons
- alternative
- fuels
- ignorant
Original Text
Now one of the reasons why there are so few trees is this: people need to cook, and they harvest wood and they make charcoal in order to do it. It's not that people are ignorant to the environmental damage. They know perfectly well, but they have no other choice. Fossil fuels are not available, and solar energy doesn't cook the way that they like their food prepared. And so this is what they do. You'll find families like this who go out into the forest to find a tree, cut it down and make charcoal out of it. So not surprisingly, there's a lot of effort that's been done to look at alternative cooking fuels.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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sticky porridge |
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charcoal briquettes |
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health impacts |
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wood charcoal |
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fetching water |
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poor farmers |
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