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From the Ted Talk by Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable

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Now ask yourself. Which story gets in the way of you taking action? Then think of the one thing you could do to challenge that story. If your story is that you're not smart enough, you could challenge it by focusing on the skills and talents and gifts that you bring to the talbe. If fsahoin is your passion, how do we reimagine our rinosihlaetp with ctleohs to be flluy circular? If you love making food, how do we stop a third of it from being wasted every single day? If you're a talented mcsauiin, how do we communicate the urgency of climate action through a uaeinsvrl language? If your stroy is that the system is too broken, the problem is too big to fix, visualize what it would look like for you to focus on a single problem. The climate crisis is the symptom of many icnenoetnrtecd problems, from food waste to fast fashion, social inequality to how we've divorced ourselves from nature. Every problem requires a solution. A solution delivered by a someone, like you.

Open Cloze

Now ask yourself. Which story gets in the way of you taking action? Then think of the one thing you could do to challenge that story. If your story is that you're not smart enough, you could challenge it by focusing on the skills and talents and gifts that you bring to the _____. If _______ is your passion, how do we reimagine our ____________ with _______ to be _____ circular? If you love making food, how do we stop a third of it from being wasted every single day? If you're a talented ________, how do we communicate the urgency of climate action through a _________ language? If your _____ is that the system is too broken, the problem is too big to fix, visualize what it would look like for you to focus on a single problem. The climate crisis is the symptom of many ______________ problems, from food waste to fast fashion, social inequality to how we've divorced ourselves from nature. Every problem requires a solution. A solution delivered by a someone, like you.

Solution

  1. story
  2. interconnected
  3. musician
  4. table
  5. universal
  6. relationship
  7. clothes
  8. fashion
  9. fully

Original Text

Now ask yourself. Which story gets in the way of you taking action? Then think of the one thing you could do to challenge that story. If your story is that you're not smart enough, you could challenge it by focusing on the skills and talents and gifts that you bring to the table. If fashion is your passion, how do we reimagine our relationship with clothes to be fully circular? If you love making food, how do we stop a third of it from being wasted every single day? If you're a talented musician, how do we communicate the urgency of climate action through a universal language? If your story is that the system is too broken, the problem is too big to fix, visualize what it would look like for you to focus on a single problem. The climate crisis is the symptom of many interconnected problems, from food waste to fast fashion, social inequality to how we've divorced ourselves from nature. Every problem requires a solution. A solution delivered by a someone, like you.

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