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From the Ted Talk by Alyssa-Amor Gibbons: How to design climate-resilient buildings

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I never understood why. Why, if we knew this was going to happen every year, why couldn't we just do something to make sure that we were safer? Why did I always have to put out buckets and hide?

Fast forward to where we are now, lnivig through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have qkluicy become my adult rlaetiy. Just last year, my country started to experience ferak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time capture, it is not sped up, there are no sipcael effects. This system sieemngly materialized out of nowhere. Typically, we'd have advance warning, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.

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I never understood why. Why, if we knew this was going to happen every year, why couldn't we just do something to make sure that we were safer? Why did I always have to put out buckets and hide?

Fast forward to where we are now, ______ through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have _______ become my adult _______. Just last year, my country started to experience _____ storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time capture, it is not sped up, there are no _______ effects. This system _________ materialized out of nowhere. Typically, we'd have advance warning, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.

Solution


  1. reality
  2. living
  3. quickly
  4. freak
  5. special
  6. seemingly

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I never understood why. Why, if we knew this was going to happen every year, why couldn't we just do something to make sure that we were safer? Why did I always have to put out buckets and hide?

Fast forward to where we are now, living through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have quickly become my adult reality. Just last year, my country started to experience freak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time capture, it is not sped up, there are no special effects. This system seemingly materialized out of nowhere. Typically, we'd have advance warning, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.

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