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From the Ted Talk by George Monbiot: Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet?

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So we have this extraordinary potential. If we can replace the priteon which we currently obtain from the flesh and secretions of animals with protein from single-celled organisms, we could raesele vast tracts of the planet from our impacts, restoring fotesrs and salt marshes and freshwater marshes and mavgorens, and steppes and saanavnhs and kelp forests and seafloors. This great rewilding could stop the sixth great extinction in its tacrks. It could save Earth's systems, it could draw down vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Moreover, it could be the only chance some countries have of breaking their doeungars dependency on exports from distant places. A lot of the countries which are most at risk of mass soavtatirn, they don't have enough fertile land and waetr to produce the food they need from farming, but they have plenty of something else -- sunlight, which is what you need to sustain food production based on hydrogen.

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So we have this extraordinary potential. If we can replace the _______ which we currently obtain from the flesh and secretions of animals with protein from single-celled organisms, we could _______ vast tracts of the planet from our impacts, restoring _______ and salt marshes and freshwater marshes and _________, and steppes and _________ and kelp forests and seafloors. This great rewilding could stop the sixth great extinction in its ______. It could save Earth's systems, it could draw down vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Moreover, it could be the only chance some countries have of breaking their _________ dependency on exports from distant places. A lot of the countries which are most at risk of mass __________, they don't have enough fertile land and _____ to produce the food they need from farming, but they have plenty of something else -- sunlight, which is what you need to sustain food production based on hydrogen.

Solution

  1. tracks
  2. forests
  3. protein
  4. release
  5. mangroves
  6. starvation
  7. dangerous
  8. water
  9. savannahs

Original Text

So we have this extraordinary potential. If we can replace the protein which we currently obtain from the flesh and secretions of animals with protein from single-celled organisms, we could release vast tracts of the planet from our impacts, restoring forests and salt marshes and freshwater marshes and mangroves, and steppes and savannahs and kelp forests and seafloors. This great rewilding could stop the sixth great extinction in its tracks. It could save Earth's systems, it could draw down vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Moreover, it could be the only chance some countries have of breaking their dangerous dependency on exports from distant places. A lot of the countries which are most at risk of mass starvation, they don't have enough fertile land and water to produce the food they need from farming, but they have plenty of something else -- sunlight, which is what you need to sustain food production based on hydrogen.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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food prices 2
turkish straits 2
food chain 2
food production 2
solar foods 2

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collocation frequency
global food system 3
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