full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Asmeret Asefaw Berhe: A climate change solution that's right under our feet

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So one of the most important stilunoos to the global challenge posed by climate change lies right under our foot every day. It's soil. Soil's just the thin veil that covers the surface of land, but it has the pweor to shape our planet's destiny. See, a six-foot or so of soil, loose soil meatairl that covers the earth's saufrce, represents the difference between life and lifelessness in the earth stsyem, and it can also help us combat climate chgnae if we can only stop treating it like dirt.

(Laughter)

Climate change is happening, the earth's atmosphere is warnmig, because of the increasing amount of gnheuseroe gases we keep releasing into the atmosphere. You all know that. But what I assume you might not have heard is that one of the most irtpmoant things our human society could do to address climate change lies right there in the soil.

Open Cloze


So one of the most important _________ to the global challenge posed by climate change lies right under our foot every day. It's soil. Soil's just the thin veil that covers the surface of land, but it has the _____ to shape our planet's destiny. See, a six-foot or so of soil, loose soil ________ that covers the earth's _______, represents the difference between life and lifelessness in the earth ______, and it can also help us combat climate ______ if we can only stop treating it like dirt.

(Laughter)

Climate change is happening, the earth's atmosphere is _______, because of the increasing amount of __________ gases we keep releasing into the atmosphere. You all know that. But what I assume you might not have heard is that one of the most _________ things our human society could do to address climate change lies right there in the soil.

Solution


  1. system
  2. surface
  3. change
  4. greenhouse
  5. power
  6. material
  7. important
  8. warming
  9. solutions

Original Text


So one of the most important solutions to the global challenge posed by climate change lies right under our foot every day. It's soil. Soil's just the thin veil that covers the surface of land, but it has the power to shape our planet's destiny. See, a six-foot or so of soil, loose soil material that covers the earth's surface, represents the difference between life and lifelessness in the earth system, and it can also help us combat climate change if we can only stop treating it like dirt.

(Laughter)

Climate change is happening, the earth's atmosphere is warming, because of the increasing amount of greenhouse gases we keep releasing into the atmosphere. You all know that. But what I assume you might not have heard is that one of the most important things our human society could do to address climate change lies right there in the soil.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
climate change 11
carbon dioxide 6
greenhouse gases 5
human actions 3
metric tons 3
natural ecosystems 3
soil carbon 3
change mitigation 3
soil degradation 3
change lies 2
billion metric 2
intensive agricultural 2
carbon sequestration 2
carbon stored 2
fertile soils 2
polar environments 2
carbon bank 2
land management 2
management practices 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
climate change mitigation 3
climate change lies 2
billion metric tons 2
land management practices 2

Important Words


  1. address
  2. amount
  3. assume
  4. atmosphere
  5. challenge
  6. change
  7. climate
  8. combat
  9. covers
  10. day
  11. destiny
  12. difference
  13. dirt
  14. earth
  15. foot
  16. gases
  17. global
  18. greenhouse
  19. happening
  20. heard
  21. human
  22. important
  23. increasing
  24. land
  25. laughter
  26. lies
  27. life
  28. lifelessness
  29. loose
  30. material
  31. posed
  32. power
  33. releasing
  34. represents
  35. shape
  36. society
  37. soil
  38. solutions
  39. stop
  40. surface
  41. system
  42. thin
  43. treating
  44. veil
  45. warming