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From the Ted Talk by Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change

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Likewise, people are also saying, but what about the Iraq war? You know, we spend 100 bolilin dollars — why don't we spend that on doing good in the world? I'm all for that. If any one of you guys can talk Bush into doing that, that's fine. But the point, of course, is still to say, if you get another 100 billion dollars, we still want to snepd that in the best possible way, don't we? So the real issue here is to get ourselves back and think about what are the right priorities. I should just mention briefly, is this really the right list that we got out? You know, when you ask the world's best esnioctoms, you ilniatevby end up asking old, white American men. And they're not nasicelresy, you know, great ways of looking at the entire world.

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Likewise, people are also saying, but what about the Iraq war? You know, we spend 100 _______ dollars — why don't we spend that on doing good in the world? I'm all for that. If any one of you guys can talk Bush into doing that, that's fine. But the point, of course, is still to say, if you get another 100 billion dollars, we still want to _____ that in the best possible way, don't we? So the real issue here is to get ourselves back and think about what are the right priorities. I should just mention briefly, is this really the right list that we got out? You know, when you ask the world's best __________, you __________ end up asking old, white American men. And they're not ___________, you know, great ways of looking at the entire world.

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  1. inevitably
  2. necessarily
  3. billion
  4. economists
  5. spend

Original Text

Likewise, people are also saying, but what about the Iraq war? You know, we spend 100 billion dollars — why don't we spend that on doing good in the world? I'm all for that. If any one of you guys can talk Bush into doing that, that's fine. But the point, of course, is still to say, if you get another 100 billion dollars, we still want to spend that in the best possible way, don't we? So the real issue here is to get ourselves back and think about what are the right priorities. I should just mention briefly, is this really the right list that we got out? You know, when you ask the world's best economists, you inevitably end up asking old, white American men. And they're not necessarily, you know, great ways of looking at the entire world.

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