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From the Ted Talk by Al Gore: The case for optimism on climate change

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And they daefeetd the posaprol. So, finally, the answer to your question is, this sounds a little corny and maybe it's a cliché, but 10 years ago — and Christiana reererfd to this — there are people in this audience who played an incredibly significant role in generating those enipoxanetl curves. And it didn't work out economically for some of them, but it kick-started this global revolution. And what people in this audience do now with the kwedlgone that we are going to win this. But it matters a lot how fast we win it.

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And they ________ the ________. So, finally, the answer to your question is, this sounds a little corny and maybe it's a cliché, but 10 years ago — and Christiana ________ to this — there are people in this audience who played an incredibly significant role in generating those ___________ curves. And it didn't work out economically for some of them, but it kick-started this global revolution. And what people in this audience do now with the _________ that we are going to win this. But it matters a lot how fast we win it.

Solution

  1. knowledge
  2. proposal
  3. referred
  4. exponential
  5. defeated

Original Text

And they defeated the proposal. So, finally, the answer to your question is, this sounds a little corny and maybe it's a cliché, but 10 years ago — and Christiana referred to this — there are people in this audience who played an incredibly significant role in generating those exponential curves. And it didn't work out economically for some of them, but it kick-started this global revolution. And what people in this audience do now with the knowledge that we are going to win this. But it matters a lot how fast we win it.

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