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From the Ted Talk by Jane Goodall: Every day you live, you impact the planet
Unscramble the Blue Letters
JG: You know, just remember that every day you live, you make an icmapt on the planet. You can't help making an impact. And at least, unless you're lviing in extreme poverty, you have a choice as to what sort of impact you make. Even in prteovy you have a choice, but when we are more affluent, we have a greater ccihoe. And if we all make ethical choices, then we start moving towards a world that will be not quite so desperate to leave to our great-grandchildren. That's, I think, something for everybody. Because a lot of people understand what's hneppnaig, but they feel helpless and hopeless, and what can they do, so they do nothing and they become apathetic. And that is a huge danger, apathy.
Open Cloze
JG: You know, just remember that every day you live, you make an ______ on the planet. You can't help making an impact. And at least, unless you're ______ in extreme poverty, you have a choice as to what sort of impact you make. Even in _______ you have a choice, but when we are more affluent, we have a greater ______. And if we all make ethical choices, then we start moving towards a world that will be not quite so desperate to leave to our great-grandchildren. That's, I think, something for everybody. Because a lot of people understand what's _________, but they feel helpless and hopeless, and what can they do, so they do nothing and they become apathetic. And that is a huge danger, apathy.
Solution
- impact
- living
- happening
- choice
- poverty
Original Text
JG: You know, just remember that every day you live, you make an impact on the planet. You can't help making an impact. And at least, unless you're living in extreme poverty, you have a choice as to what sort of impact you make. Even in poverty you have a choice, but when we are more affluent, we have a greater choice. And if we all make ethical choices, then we start moving towards a world that will be not quite so desperate to leave to our great-grandchildren. That's, I think, something for everybody. Because a lot of people understand what's happening, but they feel helpless and hopeless, and what can they do, so they do nothing and they become apathetic. And that is a huge danger, apathy.
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