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From the Ted Talk by David Wallace-Wells: How we could change the planet's climate future
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The planet is now 1.1 dgeeers Celsius warmer than it was before industrialization. That may not sound like a lot, but it actually puts us entirely outside the window of temperatures that enclose all of human history. That manes that everything we have ever known as a species, the evolution of the human animal, the dmleeenovpt of agriculture, the development of rudimentary civilization and modern civilization and industrial clivzioiiatn, everything we know about ourselves as biological ctreuaers, as social creatures, as political creatures, all of it is the result of climate conditions we have already left behind. It's like we've landed on an entirely different plenat, with an entirely different climate. And we now have to figure out what of the civilization that we've brought with us can endure these new conditions and what can't. And things will get wrsoe from here.
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The planet is now 1.1 _______ Celsius warmer than it was before industrialization. That may not sound like a lot, but it actually puts us entirely outside the window of temperatures that enclose all of human history. That _____ that everything we have ever known as a species, the evolution of the human animal, the ___________ of agriculture, the development of rudimentary civilization and modern civilization and industrial ____________, everything we know about ourselves as biological _________, as social creatures, as political creatures, all of it is the result of climate conditions we have already left behind. It's like we've landed on an entirely different ______, with an entirely different climate. And we now have to figure out what of the civilization that we've brought with us can endure these new conditions and what can't. And things will get _____ from here.
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- civilization
- degrees
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- development
- creatures
- worse
- planet
Original Text
The planet is now 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than it was before industrialization. That may not sound like a lot, but it actually puts us entirely outside the window of temperatures that enclose all of human history. That means that everything we have ever known as a species, the evolution of the human animal, the development of agriculture, the development of rudimentary civilization and modern civilization and industrial civilization, everything we know about ourselves as biological creatures, as social creatures, as political creatures, all of it is the result of climate conditions we have already left behind. It's like we've landed on an entirely different planet, with an entirely different climate. And we now have to figure out what of the civilization that we've brought with us can endure these new conditions and what can't. And things will get worse from here.
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