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From the Ted Talk by Ralph Chami: What a living whale is worth -- and why the economy should protect nature
Unscramble the Blue Letters
From there we can build -- In order to build that economy, we need three things. We need the science, the accounting, the scientific accounting. What is it that you have? How much of it do you have? Then people like me, financial economists, come around and they say, "What is the value of what you have?" The reason we value it is just to basically translate it into the language that plerycmokais can understand so they can make decisions. That's all. It's a tnraltsaoin. But then the third pillar is very important, which is the legal framing. The lgeal frimnag is very important because we need to protect the rights of nature, a living and tnihvrig nature.
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From there we can build -- In order to build that economy, we need three things. We need the science, the accounting, the scientific accounting. What is it that you have? How much of it do you have? Then people like me, financial economists, come around and they say, "What is the value of what you have?" The reason we value it is just to basically translate it into the language that ____________ can understand so they can make decisions. That's all. It's a ___________. But then the third pillar is very important, which is the legal framing. The _____ _______ is very important because we need to protect the rights of nature, a living and ________ nature.
Solution
- thriving
- translation
- legal
- policymakers
- framing
Original Text
From there we can build -- In order to build that economy, we need three things. We need the science, the accounting, the scientific accounting. What is it that you have? How much of it do you have? Then people like me, financial economists, come around and they say, "What is the value of what you have?" The reason we value it is just to basically translate it into the language that policymakers can understand so they can make decisions. That's all. It's a translation. But then the third pillar is very important, which is the legal framing. The legal framing is very important because we need to protect the rights of nature, a living and thriving nature.
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