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From the Ted Talk by Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071

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Of course, _____ ______ is fundamental to powering all of this good work, and installing thousands of _________ of clean energy production was a mammoth task. Millions of people spent their careers in this _____ infrastructural ______________. Indeed, there was so much work to be done in the 20s that governments funding it were able to create full employment. "Create full employment," which of course means an end to poverty. That there wouldn't be enough work for people, that there was a contradiction between people's health and the biosphere's health — these were confusions so ingrained in the era before the 20s, they're now hard to understand. But _________ is 20/20, if you'll excuse me saying so.

Solution

  1. energy
  2. transformation
  3. clean
  4. great
  5. gigawatts
  6. hindsight

Original Text

Of course, clean energy is fundamental to powering all of this good work, and installing thousands of gigawatts of clean energy production was a mammoth task. Millions of people spent their careers in this great infrastructural transformation. Indeed, there was so much work to be done in the 20s that governments funding it were able to create full employment. "Create full employment," which of course means an end to poverty. That there wouldn't be enough work for people, that there was a contradiction between people's health and the biosphere's health — these were confusions so ingrained in the era before the 20s, they're now hard to understand. But hindsight is 20/20, if you'll excuse me saying so.

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