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From the Ted Talk by Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good

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So we have got to create in this wlrod also institutions for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid, but also for reconstruction and security for some of the conflict-ridden states of the world. So my argument today is basically this. We have the means by which we could create a truly global society. The institutions of this gablol society can be cearted by our endeavors. That global etihc can infuse the fairness and rbiteosiinslpy that is necessary for these institutions to work, but we should not lose the chance in this gaoetrienn, in this decade in particular, with President Obama in America, with other people working with us around the world, to create global institutions for the environment, and for finance, and for security and for dlnmoeveept, that make sense of our responsibility to other peoples, our desire to bind the world together, and our need to tackle permlbos that everybody knows exist.

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So we have got to create in this _____ also institutions for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid, but also for reconstruction and security for some of the conflict-ridden states of the world. So my argument today is basically this. We have the means by which we could create a truly global society. The institutions of this ______ society can be _______ by our endeavors. That global _____ can infuse the fairness and ______________ that is necessary for these institutions to work, but we should not lose the chance in this __________, in this decade in particular, with President Obama in America, with other people working with us around the world, to create global institutions for the environment, and for finance, and for security and for ___________, that make sense of our responsibility to other peoples, our desire to bind the world together, and our need to tackle ________ that everybody knows exist.

Solution

  1. world
  2. ethic
  3. created
  4. development
  5. global
  6. problems
  7. generation
  8. responsibility

Original Text

So we have got to create in this world also institutions for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid, but also for reconstruction and security for some of the conflict-ridden states of the world. So my argument today is basically this. We have the means by which we could create a truly global society. The institutions of this global society can be created by our endeavors. That global ethic can infuse the fairness and responsibility that is necessary for these institutions to work, but we should not lose the chance in this generation, in this decade in particular, with President Obama in America, with other people working with us around the world, to create global institutions for the environment, and for finance, and for security and for development, that make sense of our responsibility to other peoples, our desire to bind the world together, and our need to tackle problems that everybody knows exist.

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