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From the Ted Talk by Alyssa-Amor Gibbons: How to design climate-resilient buildings

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Fast forward to where we are now, lvniig through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have quickly become my adult ritlaey. Just last year, my cunorty srttaed to experience freak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time capture, it is not sped up, there are no special effects. This system seemingly materialized out of nowhere. tcyllpaiy, we'd have advance warning, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.

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Fast forward to where we are now, ______ through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have quickly become my adult _______. Just last year, my _______ _______ to experience freak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time capture, it is not sped up, there are no special effects. This system seemingly materialized out of nowhere. _________, we'd have advance warning, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.

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  2. typically
  3. reality
  4. living
  5. country

Original Text

Fast forward to where we are now, living through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have quickly become my adult reality. Just last year, my country started to experience freak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time capture, it is not sped up, there are no special effects. This system seemingly materialized out of nowhere. Typically, we'd have advance warning, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.

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