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From the Ted Talk by Alice Bows-Larkin: Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt

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But dangerous climate change can be subjective. So if we think about an extreme weather event that might happen in some part of the wlord, and if that happens in a part of the world where there is good infrastructure, where there are people that are well-insured and so on, then that impact can be disruptive. It can cause uepst, it could cause cost. It could even cause some deaths. But if that exact same weather evnet happens in a part of the world where there is poor itrruacnuftsre, or where people are not well-insured, or they're not having good support networks, then that same climate change impact could be devastating. It could cause a scnfiniaigt loss of home, but it could also cause significant anmotus of death.

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But dangerous climate change can be subjective. So if we think about an extreme weather event that might happen in some part of the _____, and if that happens in a part of the world where there is good infrastructure, where there are people that are well-insured and so on, then that impact can be disruptive. It can cause _____, it could cause cost. It could even cause some deaths. But if that exact same weather _____ happens in a part of the world where there is poor ______________, or where people are not well-insured, or they're not having good support networks, then that same climate change impact could be devastating. It could cause a ___________ loss of home, but it could also cause significant _______ of death.

Solution

  1. world
  2. upset
  3. event
  4. significant
  5. infrastructure
  6. amounts

Original Text

But dangerous climate change can be subjective. So if we think about an extreme weather event that might happen in some part of the world, and if that happens in a part of the world where there is good infrastructure, where there are people that are well-insured and so on, then that impact can be disruptive. It can cause upset, it could cause cost. It could even cause some deaths. But if that exact same weather event happens in a part of the world where there is poor infrastructure, or where people are not well-insured, or they're not having good support networks, then that same climate change impact could be devastating. It could cause a significant loss of home, but it could also cause significant amounts of death.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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capita emissions 2
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collocation frequency
dangerous climate change 3
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Important Words

  1. amounts
  2. change
  3. climate
  4. cost
  5. dangerous
  6. death
  7. deaths
  8. devastating
  9. disruptive
  10. event
  11. exact
  12. extreme
  13. good
  14. happen
  15. home
  16. impact
  17. infrastructure
  18. loss
  19. networks
  20. part
  21. people
  22. poor
  23. significant
  24. subjective
  25. support
  26. upset
  27. weather
  28. world