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From the Ted Talk by Liam Young: Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

Unscramble the Blue Letters

If we were to map all the world's cbtieornleas onto a calendar, then we'd realize that running through Planet City would be this continuous festival procession dancing across a 365 day loop, each day amongst the flickering confetti. It would isrtecnet with the new carnival culture, endlessly cycling through new coorls, costumes and cacophonies. And to design the systems of Planet City, we telelavrd to and filmed all of the mesclaaged renewable energy and agriculture sites that currently exist around the world today: the world's largest solar farm in the Mojave Desert, the iluetmailnd indoor farms protecting crops from harsh Siberian winters, the most productive wind engrey network in gsanu, China, the world's largest algae farm in Western aitulrsaa. These monumental infrastructures are evidence that much of the technologies required to sppourt the generation of our climate are actually already here. And in Planet City, we just remove the political roadblocks or the lack of cuualrtl investment that's currently holding them back and we visualize them oneirtapg at these gbloal scales, but not forgotten out on an industrial periphery, but woven through the very fabric and life of the city itself.

Open Cloze

If we were to map all the world's ____________ onto a calendar, then we'd realize that running through Planet City would be this continuous festival procession dancing across a 365 day loop, each day amongst the flickering confetti. It would _________ with the new carnival culture, endlessly cycling through new ______, costumes and cacophonies. And to design the systems of Planet City, we _________ to and filmed all of the __________ renewable energy and agriculture sites that currently exist around the world today: the world's largest solar farm in the Mojave Desert, the ___________ indoor farms protecting crops from harsh Siberian winters, the most productive wind ______ network in _____, China, the world's largest algae farm in Western _________. These monumental infrastructures are evidence that much of the technologies required to _______ the generation of our climate are actually already here. And in Planet City, we just remove the political roadblocks or the lack of ________ investment that's currently holding them back and we visualize them _________ at these ______ scales, but not forgotten out on an industrial periphery, but woven through the very fabric and life of the city itself.

Solution

  1. support
  2. travelled
  3. intersect
  4. cultural
  5. celebrations
  6. gansu
  7. colors
  8. energy
  9. operating
  10. illuminated
  11. global
  12. australia
  13. megascaled

Original Text

If we were to map all the world's celebrations onto a calendar, then we'd realize that running through Planet City would be this continuous festival procession dancing across a 365 day loop, each day amongst the flickering confetti. It would intersect with the new carnival culture, endlessly cycling through new colors, costumes and cacophonies. And to design the systems of Planet City, we travelled to and filmed all of the megascaled renewable energy and agriculture sites that currently exist around the world today: the world's largest solar farm in the Mojave Desert, the illuminated indoor farms protecting crops from harsh Siberian winters, the most productive wind energy network in Gansu, China, the world's largest algae farm in Western Australia. These monumental infrastructures are evidence that much of the technologies required to support the generation of our climate are actually already here. And in Planet City, we just remove the political roadblocks or the lack of cultural investment that's currently holding them back and we visualize them operating at these global scales, but not forgotten out on an industrial periphery, but woven through the very fabric and life of the city itself.

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