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From the Ted Talk by Solitaire Townsend: Are ad agencies, PR firms and lobbyists destroying the climate?


Unscramble the Blue Letters


This year, I changed my job title to “Chief Solutionist”. I changed it to constantly rmenid myself of the job that needs doing. Because as an X itndrusy ledear myself, I can either srvee the solutions every day, or by default, I’m serving destruction. There is no middle ground here. There must be no carefully worded rationales. And the X industry can no longer pretend it can remain neutral. Now if we do that, perhaps we could become a league of solutionists and shift all of this creativity, inventiveness, knowledge and influence towards fnixig climate change. And then this invisible and intangible and incredibly influential X industry can fanlily stop being part of the problem and become part of the silootun.

Open Cloze


This year, I changed my job title to “Chief Solutionist”. I changed it to constantly ______ myself of the job that needs doing. Because as an X ________ ______ myself, I can either _____ the solutions every day, or by default, I’m serving destruction. There is no middle ground here. There must be no carefully worded rationales. And the X industry can no longer pretend it can remain neutral. Now if we do that, perhaps we could become a league of solutionists and shift all of this creativity, inventiveness, knowledge and influence towards ______ climate change. And then this invisible and intangible and incredibly influential X industry can _______ stop being part of the problem and become part of the ________.

Solution


  1. industry
  2. serve
  3. finally
  4. leader
  5. remind
  6. solution
  7. fixing

Original Text


This year, I changed my job title to “Chief Solutionist”. I changed it to constantly remind myself of the job that needs doing. Because as an X industry leader myself, I can either serve the solutions every day, or by default, I’m serving destruction. There is no middle ground here. There must be no carefully worded rationales. And the X industry can no longer pretend it can remain neutral. Now if we do that, perhaps we could become a league of solutionists and shift all of this creativity, inventiveness, knowledge and influence towards fixing climate change. And then this invisible and intangible and incredibly influential X industry can finally stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
million tonnes 3
climate change 3
carbon footprint 2
billion dollars 2
single advertising 2
advertising campaign 2
serving destruction 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
single advertising campaign 2


Important Words


  1. carefully
  2. change
  3. changed
  4. climate
  5. constantly
  6. creativity
  7. day
  8. default
  9. destruction
  10. finally
  11. fixing
  12. ground
  13. incredibly
  14. industry
  15. influence
  16. influential
  17. intangible
  18. inventiveness
  19. invisible
  20. job
  21. knowledge
  22. leader
  23. league
  24. longer
  25. middle
  26. neutral
  27. part
  28. pretend
  29. problem
  30. rationales
  31. remain
  32. remind
  33. serve
  34. serving
  35. shift
  36. solution
  37. solutionists
  38. solutions
  39. stop
  40. title
  41. worded
  42. year