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From the Ted Talk by Ryan Panchadsaram, Anjali Grover and David Biello: An updated action plan for solving the climate crisis — and a look at progress to date


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DB: So we've gone from csaatrotphe to bad ...

AG: And we can do better.

DB: So how can we do better?

Open Cloze


And I think that's really important to note because, you know, if you look at the headlines and kind of ______ what the news and chatter is around you, we've sort of moved from climate denialism to _______ doomerism, and it's made strange bedfellows out of both climate activists and fossil fuel interests. But I think what the story around temperature projections tells us is that we're not ______ as much progress as we want to be making, but we have made progress and we can continue to make more.

DB: So we've gone from ___________ to bad ...

AG: And we can do better.

DB: So how can we do better?

Solution


  1. absorb
  2. catastrophe
  3. making
  4. climate

Original Text


And I think that's really important to note because, you know, if you look at the headlines and kind of absorb what the news and chatter is around you, we've sort of moved from climate denialism to climate doomerism, and it's made strange bedfellows out of both climate activists and fossil fuel interests. But I think what the story around temperature projections tells us is that we're not making as much progress as we want to be making, but we have made progress and we can continue to make more.

DB: So we've gone from catastrophe to bad ...

AG: And we can do better.

DB: So how can we do better?

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Important Words


  1. absorb
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