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From the Ted Talk by Ilissa Ocko: The fastest way to slow climate change now

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For example, my __________ and I found that we could slow down the rate of warming by as much as 30 percent before mid-century. This would help communities and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate and hit the brakes on worsening extreme events, like wildfires in the Americas and Australia, and flooding in Europe and Asia. It would also help clean up our air, ______ _____ and crops, because _______ contributes to ozone pollution. And because some of the people most __________ to the impacts of _______ change are on the front lines of methane emissions. These solutions can also help ______ the inequity of climate change, for example, by job creation.

Solution

  1. methane
  2. reduce
  3. climate
  4. vulnerable
  5. colleagues
  6. saving
  7. lives

Original Text

For example, my colleagues and I found that we could slow down the rate of warming by as much as 30 percent before mid-century. This would help communities and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate and hit the brakes on worsening extreme events, like wildfires in the Americas and Australia, and flooding in Europe and Asia. It would also help clean up our air, saving lives and crops, because methane contributes to ozone pollution. And because some of the people most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change are on the front lines of methane emissions. These solutions can also help reduce the inequity of climate change, for example, by job creation.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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climate change 3
cut methane 3
methane emissions 3
metric tons 2
producing fossil 2
cutting methane 2
effective opportunity 2
sea ice 2

Important Words

  1. adapt
  2. air
  3. americas
  4. asia
  5. australia
  6. brakes
  7. change
  8. changing
  9. clean
  10. climate
  11. colleagues
  12. communities
  13. contributes
  14. creation
  15. crops
  16. ecosystems
  17. emissions
  18. europe
  19. events
  20. extreme
  21. flooding
  22. front
  23. hit
  24. impacts
  25. inequity
  26. job
  27. lines
  28. lives
  29. methane
  30. ozone
  31. people
  32. percent
  33. pollution
  34. rate
  35. reduce
  36. saving
  37. slow
  38. solutions
  39. vulnerable
  40. warming
  41. wildfires
  42. worsening