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From the Ted Talk by Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
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What I just presented to you is a vision of an impossible world. We can do something to change that. We can change consumption patterns, we can reduce food waste, or we can make a bold cmmeiontmt to increasing yields exponentially.
Now, I'm not going to go into discussing changing consumption patterns or ricdneug food waste, because those cnintrveoaoss have been going on for some time now. Nothing has happened. Nothing has hneeppad because those arguments ask the surplus regions to change their behavior on behalf of deficit rioegns. Waiting for others to change their behavior on your behalf, for your sirvvaul, is a terrible idea. It's unproductive.
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What I just presented to you is a vision of an impossible world. We can do something to change that. We can change consumption patterns, we can reduce food waste, or we can make a bold __________ to increasing yields exponentially.
Now, I'm not going to go into discussing changing consumption patterns or ________ food waste, because those _____________ have been going on for some time now. Nothing has happened. Nothing has ________ because those arguments ask the surplus regions to change their behavior on behalf of deficit _______. Waiting for others to change their behavior on your behalf, for your ________, is a terrible idea. It's unproductive.
Solution
- regions
- survival
- happened
- commitment
- conversations
- reducing
Original Text
What I just presented to you is a vision of an impossible world. We can do something to change that. We can change consumption patterns, we can reduce food waste, or we can make a bold commitment to increasing yields exponentially.
Now, I'm not going to go into discussing changing consumption patterns or reducing food waste, because those conversations have been going on for some time now. Nothing has happened. Nothing has happened because those arguments ask the surplus regions to change their behavior on behalf of deficit regions. Waiting for others to change their behavior on your behalf, for your survival, is a terrible idea. It's unproductive.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| global food |
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| arable land |
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| commercial farms |
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