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From the Ted Talk by Johan Rockström: 5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

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Open Cloze


(Laughter)

I mean, this is just a beautiful piece of work? And I'd just love to spend the whole evening walking this through with you, but I'll make you disappointed. I cannot do that. In fact, the only thing I can do with you is just to ______ you that this is the first time it's done. Nobody has ever tried to really analytically combine the Sustainable Development Goals with _________ boundaries. And we were able to find patterns and really __________ trends that gives us a lot of confidence in our ability to now project economic development, resources use from _____, food and energy, population growth, income per ______, yet along these consistent and systemic pathways. So, it's the first time we have a ______ ___________ to really explore the futures of ability of attaining the SDGs within PBs.

Solution


  1. planetary
  2. robust
  3. opportunity
  4. assure
  5. person
  6. water
  7. convergent

Original Text


(Laughter)

I mean, this is just a beautiful piece of work? And I'd just love to spend the whole evening walking this through with you, but I'll make you disappointed. I cannot do that. In fact, the only thing I can do with you is just to assure you that this is the first time it's done. Nobody has ever tried to really analytically combine the Sustainable Development Goals with planetary boundaries. And we were able to find patterns and really convergent trends that gives us a lot of confidence in our ability to now project economic development, resources use from water, food and energy, population growth, income per person, yet along these consistent and systemic pathways. So, it's the first time we have a robust opportunity to really explore the futures of ability of attaining the SDGs within PBs.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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safe operating 10
operating space 10
sustainable development 9
earth system 7
development goals 6
stable earth 4
economic growth 3
planetary boundaries 3
good human 2
tipping points 2
start thinking 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
safe operating space 9
sustainable development goals 6
stable earth system 3

Important Words


  1. ability
  2. analytically
  3. assure
  4. attaining
  5. beautiful
  6. boundaries
  7. combine
  8. confidence
  9. consistent
  10. convergent
  11. development
  12. disappointed
  13. economic
  14. energy
  15. evening
  16. explore
  17. fact
  18. find
  19. food
  20. futures
  21. goals
  22. growth
  23. income
  24. laughter
  25. lot
  26. love
  27. opportunity
  28. pathways
  29. patterns
  30. pbs
  31. person
  32. piece
  33. planetary
  34. population
  35. project
  36. resources
  37. robust
  38. sdgs
  39. spend
  40. sustainable
  41. systemic
  42. time
  43. trends
  44. walking
  45. water
  46. work