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From the Ted Talk by Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that I have a solution for climate change, for the water crisis. Agriculture takes 70 percent of fresh water supplies on earth. I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that there is such a solution for those things, or the eengry crisis, or world hunger, or peace in conflict. I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that I have a simple solution for that, but I can look you in the eyes and tell you that we can't slove any of those problems if we don't have crop diversity. Because I challenge you to think of an effective, efficient, sustainable sooilutn to climate change if we don't have crop diversity. Because, quite literally, if agriculture doesn't adapt to clitame caghne, neither will we. And if crops don't adapt to climate change, neither will agriculture, neither will we.
Open Cloze
I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that I have a solution for climate change, for the water crisis. Agriculture takes 70 percent of fresh water supplies on earth. I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that there is such a solution for those things, or the ______ crisis, or world hunger, or peace in conflict. I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that I have a simple solution for that, but I can look you in the eyes and tell you that we can't _____ any of those problems if we don't have crop diversity. Because I challenge you to think of an effective, efficient, sustainable ________ to climate change if we don't have crop diversity. Because, quite literally, if agriculture doesn't adapt to _______ ______, neither will we. And if crops don't adapt to climate change, neither will agriculture, neither will we.
Solution
- solution
- climate
- energy
- change
- solve
Original Text
I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that I have a solution for climate change, for the water crisis. Agriculture takes 70 percent of fresh water supplies on earth. I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that there is such a solution for those things, or the energy crisis, or world hunger, or peace in conflict. I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that I have a simple solution for that, but I can look you in the eyes and tell you that we can't solve any of those problems if we don't have crop diversity. Because I challenge you to think of an effective, efficient, sustainable solution to climate change if we don't have crop diversity. Because, quite literally, if agriculture doesn't adapt to climate change, neither will we. And if crops don't adapt to climate change, neither will agriculture, neither will we.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
crop diversity |
5 |
climate change |
5 |
fowler apple |
4 |
good news |
3 |
growing seasons |
3 |
seed banks |
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biological diversity |
2 |
agricultural crops |
2 |
mass extinction |
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agricultural system |
2 |
coldest growing |
2 |
south africa |
2 |
percent decrease |
2 |
backup system |
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ngrams of length 3
collocation |
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coldest growing seasons |
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Important Words
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- agriculture
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- change
- climate
- conflict
- crisis
- crop
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- diversity
- earth
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- eyes
- fresh
- hunger
- literally
- peace
- percent
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- supplies
- sustainable
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- water
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