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From the Ted Talk by Hannah Ritchie: Are we the last generation -- or the first sustainable one?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Finally, it's a way to rethink the way we live our lives, the way we design our cities and our communities. Here, we see Copenhagen, with beiks on the road, or Amsterdam, where you have layer upon layer of bike rack. Now I'm not saying this is how our ceitis have to look. We can dgeisn them in any way we want. What I'm saying is that sustainability gives us the shelf to rethink the way we do things.

Finally, we need to rethink the way we use data. As a data scientist, I take this very seriously. The environmentalists have done an aanizmg job of waking the world up to these problems. Those charts of rising CO2 and rising tmrreatpuee have been asblotluey critical. They're why I'm on the stage today, they're why I got involved in this in the first place. But there's a limit. When that's all we see, we become paralyzed. We see these lines rising, and we assume that they might never stop. We assume that no progress has been made, that nothing good is happening. But as we've just seen, this couldn't be further from the truth. We need to use data to inspire, to show what the problems are, also what the solutions are, and we need to show real sngis of pgrrsoes from cunotires, individuals, companies.

Open Cloze


Finally, it's a way to rethink the way we live our lives, the way we design our cities and our communities. Here, we see Copenhagen, with _____ on the road, or Amsterdam, where you have layer upon layer of bike rack. Now I'm not saying this is how our ______ have to look. We can ______ them in any way we want. What I'm saying is that sustainability gives us the shelf to rethink the way we do things.

Finally, we need to rethink the way we use data. As a data scientist, I take this very seriously. The environmentalists have done an _______ job of waking the world up to these problems. Those charts of rising CO2 and rising ___________ have been __________ critical. They're why I'm on the stage today, they're why I got involved in this in the first place. But there's a limit. When that's all we see, we become paralyzed. We see these lines rising, and we assume that they might never stop. We assume that no progress has been made, that nothing good is happening. But as we've just seen, this couldn't be further from the truth. We need to use data to inspire, to show what the problems are, also what the solutions are, and we need to show real _____ of ________ from _________, individuals, companies.

Solution


  1. signs
  2. bikes
  3. progress
  4. temperature
  5. countries
  6. cities
  7. amazing
  8. design
  9. absolutely

Original Text


Finally, it's a way to rethink the way we live our lives, the way we design our cities and our communities. Here, we see Copenhagen, with bikes on the road, or Amsterdam, where you have layer upon layer of bike rack. Now I'm not saying this is how our cities have to look. We can design them in any way we want. What I'm saying is that sustainability gives us the shelf to rethink the way we do things.

Finally, we need to rethink the way we use data. As a data scientist, I take this very seriously. The environmentalists have done an amazing job of waking the world up to these problems. Those charts of rising CO2 and rising temperature have been absolutely critical. They're why I'm on the stage today, they're why I got involved in this in the first place. But there's a limit. When that's all we see, we become paralyzed. We see these lines rising, and we assume that they might never stop. We assume that no progress has been made, that nothing good is happening. But as we've just seen, this couldn't be further from the truth. We need to use data to inspire, to show what the problems are, also what the solutions are, and we need to show real signs of progress from countries, individuals, companies.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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young people 3
crop yields 3
electric car 3
climate change 2
people today 2
children died 2
poverty line 2
burn wood 2
fossil fuels 2
big driver 2
energy storage 2
completely transformed 2
global deforestation 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
young people today 2

Important Words


  1. absolutely
  2. amazing
  3. amsterdam
  4. assume
  5. bike
  6. bikes
  7. charts
  8. cities
  9. communities
  10. companies
  11. copenhagen
  12. countries
  13. critical
  14. data
  15. design
  16. environmentalists
  17. finally
  18. good
  19. happening
  20. individuals
  21. inspire
  22. involved
  23. job
  24. layer
  25. limit
  26. lines
  27. live
  28. lives
  29. paralyzed
  30. place
  31. problems
  32. progress
  33. rack
  34. real
  35. rethink
  36. rising
  37. road
  38. scientist
  39. shelf
  40. show
  41. signs
  42. solutions
  43. stage
  44. stop
  45. sustainability
  46. temperature
  47. today
  48. truth
  49. waking
  50. world