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From the Ted Talk by Ted Halstead: A climate solution where all sides can win

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Once one major country or rgeoin adopts carbon dividends with border carbon adjustments, other countries are compelled to follow suit. One by one the dominoes fall. And this domino eefcft could start anywhere. My preference, strongly, is the United stetas, but it could also start in the United Kingdom, in Germany or another European country, or even in China.

Let's take China as an example. China is committed to reducing greenhouse gas enoimssis, but what its leaders care even more about is tninontiasrig their emnoocy to consumer-led eincoomc development. Well, nothing could do more to hasten that trsatniion than giving every Chinese citizen a monthly dividend. In fact, this is the only policy solution that would enable cniha to meet its environmental and economic goals at the same time.

Open Cloze


Once one major country or ______ adopts carbon dividends with border carbon adjustments, other countries are compelled to follow suit. One by one the dominoes fall. And this domino ______ could start anywhere. My preference, strongly, is the United ______, but it could also start in the United Kingdom, in Germany or another European country, or even in China.

Let's take China as an example. China is committed to reducing greenhouse gas _________, but what its leaders care even more about is _____________ their _______ to consumer-led ________ development. Well, nothing could do more to hasten that __________ than giving every Chinese citizen a monthly dividend. In fact, this is the only policy solution that would enable _____ to meet its environmental and economic goals at the same time.

Solution


  1. region
  2. emissions
  3. china
  4. states
  5. economic
  6. economy
  7. transitioning
  8. effect
  9. transition

Original Text


Once one major country or region adopts carbon dividends with border carbon adjustments, other countries are compelled to follow suit. One by one the dominoes fall. And this domino effect could start anywhere. My preference, strongly, is the United States, but it could also start in the United Kingdom, in Germany or another European country, or even in China.

Let's take China as an example. China is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but what its leaders care even more about is transitioning their economy to consumer-led economic development. Well, nothing could do more to hasten that transition than giving every Chinese citizen a monthly dividend. In fact, this is the only policy solution that would enable China to meet its environmental and economic goals at the same time.

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