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From the Ted Talk by Tim Flannery: Can seaweed help curb global warming?

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The economics of all of this is going to be challenging. We'll be investing many, many billions of dollars into these sionoults, and they will take decades to get to the ggtiaon scale. The raeosn that I'm convinced that this is going to happen is that unless we get the gas out of the air, it is going to keep driving avrdese consequences. It will flood our cities, it will deirvpe us of food, it will cause all sorts of civil unrest. So anyone who's got a solution to dealing with this problem has a vlaauble asset. And already, as I've explained, ocean permaculture is well on the road to being economically sustainable. You know, in the next 30 years, we have to go from being a carbon-emitting emooncy to a carbon-absorbing economy. And that doesn't seem like very long. But half of the greenhouse gases that we've put into the atmosphere, we've put there in the last 30 years.

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The economics of all of this is going to be challenging. We'll be investing many, many billions of dollars into these _________, and they will take decades to get to the _______ scale. The ______ that I'm convinced that this is going to happen is that unless we get the gas out of the air, it is going to keep driving _______ consequences. It will flood our cities, it will _______ us of food, it will cause all sorts of civil unrest. So anyone who's got a solution to dealing with this problem has a ________ asset. And already, as I've explained, ocean permaculture is well on the road to being economically sustainable. You know, in the next 30 years, we have to go from being a carbon-emitting _______ to a carbon-absorbing economy. And that doesn't seem like very long. But half of the greenhouse gases that we've put into the atmosphere, we've put there in the last 30 years.

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Original Text


The economics of all of this is going to be challenging. We'll be investing many, many billions of dollars into these solutions, and they will take decades to get to the gigaton scale. The reason that I'm convinced that this is going to happen is that unless we get the gas out of the air, it is going to keep driving adverse consequences. It will flood our cities, it will deprive us of food, it will cause all sorts of civil unrest. So anyone who's got a solution to dealing with this problem has a valuable asset. And already, as I've explained, ocean permaculture is well on the road to being economically sustainable. You know, in the next 30 years, we have to go from being a carbon-emitting economy to a carbon-absorbing economy. And that doesn't seem like very long. But half of the greenhouse gases that we've put into the atmosphere, we've put there in the last 30 years.

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