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From the Ted Talk by Gordon Brown: Global ethic vs. national interest

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But I'm trying to suggest that there is a huge opportunity open to us that was never open to us before. But the power to communicate across borders allows us to organize the world in a different way. And I think, look at the tsunami, it's a csalisc example. Where was the early warning systems? Where was the world acting together to deal with the problems that they knew arose from the pinaettol for ethuerkaaqs, as well as the potential for climate change? And when the wrold starts to work together, with better early-warning sseymts, you can deal with some of these problems in a better way. I just think we're not seeing, at the moment, the huge opportunities open to us by the ability of ppeloe to cooperate in a world where either there was isolationism before or there was limited alliances based on convenience which never actually took you to deal with some of the central problems.

Open Cloze

But I'm trying to suggest that there is a huge opportunity open to us that was never open to us before. But the power to communicate across borders allows us to organize the world in a different way. And I think, look at the tsunami, it's a _______ example. Where was the early warning systems? Where was the world acting together to deal with the problems that they knew arose from the _________ for ___________, as well as the potential for climate change? And when the _____ starts to work together, with better early-warning _______, you can deal with some of these problems in a better way. I just think we're not seeing, at the moment, the huge opportunities open to us by the ability of ______ to cooperate in a world where either there was isolationism before or there was limited alliances based on convenience which never actually took you to deal with some of the central problems.

Solution

  1. potential
  2. world
  3. people
  4. systems
  5. earthquakes
  6. classic

Original Text

But I'm trying to suggest that there is a huge opportunity open to us that was never open to us before. But the power to communicate across borders allows us to organize the world in a different way. And I think, look at the tsunami, it's a classic example. Where was the early warning systems? Where was the world acting together to deal with the problems that they knew arose from the potential for earthquakes, as well as the potential for climate change? And when the world starts to work together, with better early-warning systems, you can deal with some of these problems in a better way. I just think we're not seeing, at the moment, the huge opportunities open to us by the ability of people to cooperate in a world where either there was isolationism before or there was limited alliances based on convenience which never actually took you to deal with some of the central problems.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
climate change 7
global ethic 6
global society 3
persuade people 3
international institutions 3
global citizenship 2
richard nixon 2
cutting carbon 2
bill clinton 2

Important Words

  1. ability
  2. acting
  3. alliances
  4. arose
  5. based
  6. borders
  7. central
  8. change
  9. classic
  10. climate
  11. communicate
  12. convenience
  13. cooperate
  14. deal
  15. early
  16. earthquakes
  17. huge
  18. isolationism
  19. knew
  20. limited
  21. moment
  22. open
  23. opportunities
  24. opportunity
  25. organize
  26. people
  27. potential
  28. power
  29. problems
  30. starts
  31. suggest
  32. systems
  33. tsunami
  34. warning
  35. work
  36. world