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From the Ted Talk by Kelly Wanser: Emergency medicine for our climate fever
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Could interventions like these provide fast-acting medicine if we need it to reudce the earth's fever while we address its underlying causes? There are real concerns about this idea. Some people are very worried that even researching these interventions could provide an excuse to delay erotffs to reduce emissions. This is also known as a moral hazard. But, like most miiendces, irnivetnotnes are more dangerous the more that you do, so research actually tends to draw out the fact that we absolutely, positively cannot continue to fill up the atmosphere with goenuhsree gases, that these kinds of alternatives are risky and if we were to use them, we would need to use as little as possible.
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Could interventions like these provide fast-acting medicine if we need it to ______ the earth's fever while we address its underlying causes? There are real concerns about this idea. Some people are very worried that even researching these interventions could provide an excuse to delay _______ to reduce emissions. This is also known as a moral hazard. But, like most _________, _____________ are more dangerous the more that you do, so research actually tends to draw out the fact that we absolutely, positively cannot continue to fill up the atmosphere with __________ gases, that these kinds of alternatives are risky and if we were to use them, we would need to use as little as possible.
Solution
- efforts
- greenhouse
- interventions
- medicines
- reduce
Original Text
Could interventions like these provide fast-acting medicine if we need it to reduce the earth's fever while we address its underlying causes? There are real concerns about this idea. Some people are very worried that even researching these interventions could provide an excuse to delay efforts to reduce emissions. This is also known as a moral hazard. But, like most medicines, interventions are more dangerous the more that you do, so research actually tends to draw out the fact that we absolutely, positively cannot continue to fill up the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, that these kinds of alternatives are risky and if we were to use them, we would need to use as little as possible.
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