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From the Ted Talk by Jens Burchardt: How we can curb climate change by spending two percent more on everything

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And many of these emissions are in sectors like steel, that can shoulder the costs on their own. Some are in countries that don’t yet regulate emissions aggressively enough. Take the Chucks I’m wearing now. Me being willing to spned two percent more on them could have reduced the production emissions in China. Now I'm well aware that not everyone can easily afford to spend these two percent extra, but we have to be aware that the eocinomc cunqeocenses, let alone the human ones, of not sdpnneig this money, would be far, far worse. We have to move to net zero. Fairly dnisuritibtg the costs of this is one of the many challenges that we as a soecity will need to deal with.

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And many of these emissions are in sectors like steel, that can shoulder the costs on their own. Some are in countries that don’t yet regulate emissions aggressively enough. Take the Chucks I’m wearing now. Me being willing to _____ two percent more on them could have reduced the production emissions in China. Now I'm well aware that not everyone can easily afford to spend these two percent extra, but we have to be aware that the ________ ____________, let alone the human ones, of not ________ this money, would be far, far worse. We have to move to net zero. Fairly ____________ the costs of this is one of the many challenges that we as a _______ will need to deal with.

Solution

  1. economic
  2. spending
  3. society
  4. consequences
  5. distributing
  6. spend

Original Text

And many of these emissions are in sectors like steel, that can shoulder the costs on their own. Some are in countries that don’t yet regulate emissions aggressively enough. Take the Chucks I’m wearing now. Me being willing to spend two percent more on them could have reduced the production emissions in China. Now I'm well aware that not everyone can easily afford to spend these two percent extra, but we have to be aware that the economic consequences, let alone the human ones, of not spending this money, would be far, far worse. We have to move to net zero. Fairly distributing the costs of this is one of the many challenges that we as a society will need to deal with.

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