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From the Ted Talk by Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
Usually, in these kind of TED Talks, I would now say how it's overly _______, how we young people are going to get this sorted, how we're going to save the ______ and the planet and everything else, how we _____ people striking for the _______ are going to fix this. Usually. But this is not how this _____. This is not how this crisis works. Here's a twist: today, three and a half years after that Paris Agreement was signed, when we look at the _______, we find it's still possible to keep global warming to below two degrees — technically. And we also see it's still possible to hold other disastrous developments we're seeing, such as mass extinction and soil degradation — yes, technically. It's just incredibly, incredibly unlikely.
Solution
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Original Text
Usually, in these kind of TED Talks, I would now say how it's overly hopeful, how we young people are going to get this sorted, how we're going to save the future and the planet and everything else, how we young people striking for the climate are going to fix this. Usually. But this is not how this works. This is not how this crisis works. Here's a twist: today, three and a half years after that Paris Agreement was signed, when we look at the science, we find it's still possible to keep global warming to below two degrees — technically. And we also see it's still possible to hold other disastrous developments we're seeing, such as mass extinction and soil degradation — yes, technically. It's just incredibly, incredibly unlikely.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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