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From the Ted Talk by John Doerr and Ryan Panchadsaram: An action plan for solving the climate crisis

Unscramble the Blue Letters


LL: One of the things in the book is cobarn removals, which you believe is irmiapetve to solving this plborem. And when people think about carbon removals, they get understandably suspicious. Because hltoliscariy, it's been an excuse for inaction. We can continue polluting, and we’ll clean up later. You're telling us in your view that carbon removals are an imperative piece of the plan. Can you describe why and what you mean by that?

RP: Of course. I mean, people should be sosupciuis. Carbon removal needs to be the last piece. So as an organization, if you're trying to get to net-zero, the first thing you have to do is cut, right? Pick the alternative, pick the eertcilc arvteilatne. Then you’ve got to be more efficient. So you've got to cut, become more efficient, and then Lindsay, then people can rely on carbon removal. But when you look at all the models from IPCC or even our rough modeling, you're still going to have 10 gigatons left over. And so we've got to invest in carbon-removal technologies that are both nature-based as well as engineered, because we're going to need it in the future.

Open Cloze


LL: One of the things in the book is ______ removals, which you believe is __________ to solving this _______. And when people think about carbon removals, they get understandably suspicious. Because ____________, it's been an excuse for inaction. We can continue polluting, and we’ll clean up later. You're telling us in your view that carbon removals are an imperative piece of the plan. Can you describe why and what you mean by that?

RP: Of course. I mean, people should be __________. Carbon removal needs to be the last piece. So as an organization, if you're trying to get to net-zero, the first thing you have to do is cut, right? Pick the alternative, pick the ________ ___________. Then you’ve got to be more efficient. So you've got to cut, become more efficient, and then Lindsay, then people can rely on carbon removal. But when you look at all the models from IPCC or even our rough modeling, you're still going to have 10 gigatons left over. And so we've got to invest in carbon-removal technologies that are both nature-based as well as engineered, because we're going to need it in the future.

Solution


  1. imperative
  2. electric
  3. historically
  4. carbon
  5. suspicious
  6. alternative
  7. problem

Original Text


LL: One of the things in the book is carbon removals, which you believe is imperative to solving this problem. And when people think about carbon removals, they get understandably suspicious. Because historically, it's been an excuse for inaction. We can continue polluting, and we’ll clean up later. You're telling us in your view that carbon removals are an imperative piece of the plan. Can you describe why and what you mean by that?

RP: Of course. I mean, people should be suspicious. Carbon removal needs to be the last piece. So as an organization, if you're trying to get to net-zero, the first thing you have to do is cut, right? Pick the alternative, pick the electric alternative. Then you’ve got to be more efficient. So you've got to cut, become more efficient, and then Lindsay, then people can rely on carbon removal. But when you look at all the models from IPCC or even our rough modeling, you're still going to have 10 gigatons left over. And so we've got to invest in carbon-removal technologies that are both nature-based as well as engineered, because we're going to need it in the future.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
key results 5
action plan 2
electric vehicles 2
climate change 2
carbon removal 2
climate justice 2
clean economy 2
leverage points 2
people coming 2


Important Words


  1. alternative
  2. book
  3. carbon
  4. clean
  5. continue
  6. cut
  7. describe
  8. efficient
  9. electric
  10. engineered
  11. excuse
  12. future
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  14. historically
  15. imperative
  16. inaction
  17. invest
  18. ipcc
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  20. lindsay
  21. modeling
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  23. organization
  24. people
  25. pick
  26. piece
  27. plan
  28. polluting
  29. problem
  30. rely
  31. removal
  32. removals
  33. rough
  34. solving
  35. suspicious
  36. technologies
  37. telling
  38. understandably
  39. view