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From the Ted Talk by Colette Pichon Battle: Climate change will displace millions. Here's how we prepare

Unscramble the Blue Letters


After Hurricane Katrina, universities and high schools around the US took in students to help them finish their ssmeeetr or their year without msiinsg a beat. Those setutnds are now productive assets in our community, and this is what our communities, our besenussis and our ininoiutttss need to get ready for now. The time is now.

So as we reframe the problem in a more truthful way and we restructure our social systems in a more just way, all that will be left is for us to reindigenize ourselves and to conjure a pwoer of the most ancient kind. This necessarily means that we must learn to follow — not tokenize, not exotify, not dismiss — the leadership and the traditional knowledge of a particular local place. It means that we must cmmoit to standards of ecological equity and climate justice and haumn rthigs as the basis, a base standard, a starting point, for where our new society is to go.

Open Cloze


After Hurricane Katrina, universities and high schools around the US took in students to help them finish their ________ or their year without _______ a beat. Those ________ are now productive assets in our community, and this is what our communities, our __________ and our ____________ need to get ready for now. The time is now.

So as we reframe the problem in a more truthful way and we restructure our social systems in a more just way, all that will be left is for us to reindigenize ourselves and to conjure a _____ of the most ancient kind. This necessarily means that we must learn to follow — not tokenize, not exotify, not dismiss — the leadership and the traditional knowledge of a particular local place. It means that we must ______ to standards of ecological equity and climate justice and _____ ______ as the basis, a base standard, a starting point, for where our new society is to go.

Solution


  1. semester
  2. human
  3. power
  4. students
  5. missing
  6. institutions
  7. commit
  8. rights
  9. businesses

Original Text


After Hurricane Katrina, universities and high schools around the US took in students to help them finish their semester or their year without missing a beat. Those students are now productive assets in our community, and this is what our communities, our businesses and our institutions need to get ready for now. The time is now.

So as we reframe the problem in a more truthful way and we restructure our social systems in a more just way, all that will be left is for us to reindigenize ourselves and to conjure a power of the most ancient kind. This necessarily means that we must learn to follow — not tokenize, not exotify, not dismiss — the leadership and the traditional knowledge of a particular local place. It means that we must commit to standards of ecological equity and climate justice and human rights as the basis, a base standard, a starting point, for where our new society is to go.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
south louisiana 5
climate change 4
land loss 3
climate crisis 3
climate gentrification 3
economic systems 3
hurricane katrina 2
flood maps 2
graphic showed 2
sea level 2
level rise 2
climate disaster 2
crossing borders 2
economic system 2
social systems 2
return home 2
climate migration 2
problem climate 2
advance human 2
collective resilience 2
human rights 2
work starts 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
sea level rise 2
problem climate change 2

Important Words


  1. ancient
  2. assets
  3. base
  4. basis
  5. beat
  6. businesses
  7. climate
  8. commit
  9. communities
  10. community
  11. conjure
  12. dismiss
  13. ecological
  14. equity
  15. exotify
  16. finish
  17. follow
  18. high
  19. human
  20. hurricane
  21. institutions
  22. justice
  23. katrina
  24. kind
  25. knowledge
  26. leadership
  27. learn
  28. left
  29. local
  30. means
  31. missing
  32. necessarily
  33. place
  34. point
  35. power
  36. problem
  37. productive
  38. ready
  39. reframe
  40. reindigenize
  41. restructure
  42. rights
  43. schools
  44. semester
  45. social
  46. society
  47. standard
  48. standards
  49. starting
  50. students
  51. systems
  52. time
  53. tokenize
  54. traditional
  55. truthful
  56. universities
  57. year