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From the Ted Talk by Gabriel Kra: 5 promising factors propelling climate action

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We need to change the way we think about the climate cglnhelae. Because things are different this time. We need to stop thinking about it just as a problem, which it obviously is, and start thinking about it as an opportunity which will motivate us to solve it.

I'm a venture investor. I invest in erlay stage companies and tnelchgoieos, and I see tdeerunoms opportunities in solving catlime change. That said, we've been here before, and it's different this time. We can reduce net eisosmnis to zero. And that was not obvious even just 10 years ago. Why do I think it's different? Because we have cheaper inputs, we have better technologies. We have better policies. We have a better sense of urgency. And most important of all, we have even better people working on it.

Open Cloze


We need to change the way we think about the climate _________. Because things are different this time. We need to stop thinking about it just as a problem, which it obviously is, and start thinking about it as an opportunity which will motivate us to solve it.

I'm a venture investor. I invest in _____ stage companies and ____________, and I see __________ opportunities in solving _______ change. That said, we've been here before, and it's different this time. We can reduce net _________ to zero. And that was not obvious even just 10 years ago. Why do I think it's different? Because we have cheaper inputs, we have better technologies. We have better policies. We have a better sense of urgency. And most important of all, we have even better people working on it.

Solution


  1. tremendous
  2. early
  3. emissions
  4. technologies
  5. challenge
  6. climate

Original Text


We need to change the way we think about the climate challenge. Because things are different this time. We need to stop thinking about it just as a problem, which it obviously is, and start thinking about it as an opportunity which will motivate us to solve it.

I'm a venture investor. I invest in early stage companies and technologies, and I see tremendous opportunities in solving climate change. That said, we've been here before, and it's different this time. We can reduce net emissions to zero. And that was not obvious even just 10 years ago. Why do I think it's different? Because we have cheaper inputs, we have better technologies. We have better policies. We have a better sense of urgency. And most important of all, we have even better people working on it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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climate change 4
electric vehicles 3
tremendous opportunities 2
solving climate 2
people working 2
bit naive 2
big data 2
carbon dioxide 2
cheap green 2
green hydrogen 2
carbon accounting 2
great people 2
key factor 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
solving climate change 2

Important Words


  1. challenge
  2. change
  3. cheaper
  4. climate
  5. companies
  6. early
  7. emissions
  8. important
  9. inputs
  10. invest
  11. investor
  12. motivate
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  14. obvious
  15. opportunities
  16. opportunity
  17. people
  18. policies
  19. problem
  20. reduce
  21. sense
  22. solve
  23. solving
  24. stage
  25. start
  26. stop
  27. technologies
  28. thinking
  29. time
  30. tremendous
  31. urgency
  32. venture
  33. working
  34. years