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From the Ted Talk by David Lammy: Climate justice can't happen without racial justice

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We all rghtliy know the name of grogee Floyd, who was murdered by the police. But we should also know the name of Ella Kissi-Debrah. Ella, a nine-year-old mixed-race girl from South East lodnon, was killed by a fatal asthma attack. Evidence suggests this was cueasd plrtay by the uawlfunl levels of air pollution near her home.

And it's not only urban areas where Black lives are disproportionately under threat from climate change. My parents' home country of Guyana is one of the most vulnerable countries on Earth to the effects of climate change. So far, Guyana has contributed relatively little to the climate emergency, but it's one of the countries facing the most serious threats from it. While the annual carbon dioxdie emissions per head in the United States is a staggering 16.5 metric tons, in gyunaa it's just 2.6. It is a pattern repeated across the globe. Those ceinurots that have contributed least to the camtlie breakdown, mainly in the global stuoh, will suffer the most from fdolos, droughts, and rising temperatures. This is a pattern of suffering with a long history.

Open Cloze


We all _______ know the name of ______ Floyd, who was murdered by the police. But we should also know the name of Ella Kissi-Debrah. Ella, a nine-year-old mixed-race girl from South East ______, was killed by a fatal asthma attack. Evidence suggests this was ______ ______ by the ________ levels of air pollution near her home.

And it's not only urban areas where Black lives are disproportionately under threat from climate change. My parents' home country of Guyana is one of the most vulnerable countries on Earth to the effects of climate change. So far, Guyana has contributed relatively little to the climate emergency, but it's one of the countries facing the most serious threats from it. While the annual carbon _______ emissions per head in the United States is a staggering 16.5 metric tons, in ______ it's just 2.6. It is a pattern repeated across the globe. Those _________ that have contributed least to the _______ breakdown, mainly in the global _____, will suffer the most from ______, droughts, and rising temperatures. This is a pattern of suffering with a long history.

Solution


  1. unlawful
  2. countries
  3. south
  4. guyana
  5. dioxide
  6. london
  7. caused
  8. rightly
  9. george
  10. partly
  11. climate
  12. floods

Original Text


We all rightly know the name of George Floyd, who was murdered by the police. But we should also know the name of Ella Kissi-Debrah. Ella, a nine-year-old mixed-race girl from South East London, was killed by a fatal asthma attack. Evidence suggests this was caused partly by the unlawful levels of air pollution near her home.

And it's not only urban areas where Black lives are disproportionately under threat from climate change. My parents' home country of Guyana is one of the most vulnerable countries on Earth to the effects of climate change. So far, Guyana has contributed relatively little to the climate emergency, but it's one of the countries facing the most serious threats from it. While the annual carbon dioxide emissions per head in the United States is a staggering 16.5 metric tons, in Guyana it's just 2.6. It is a pattern repeated across the globe. Those countries that have contributed least to the climate breakdown, mainly in the global south, will suffer the most from floods, droughts, and rising temperatures. This is a pattern of suffering with a long history.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
black lives 9
climate change 6
climate crisis 4
lives matter 4
black communities 2
sea levels 2
matter movement 2
climate emergency 2
progressive allies 2
black people 2
air pollution 2
urban areas 2
united states 2
climate movement 2
racial inequalities 2
leadership positions 2
environmental organizations 2
global south 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
black lives matter 4
lives matter movement 2

Important Words


  1. air
  2. annual
  3. areas
  4. asthma
  5. attack
  6. black
  7. breakdown
  8. carbon
  9. caused
  10. change
  11. climate
  12. contributed
  13. countries
  14. country
  15. dioxide
  16. disproportionately
  17. droughts
  18. earth
  19. east
  20. effects
  21. ella
  22. emergency
  23. emissions
  24. evidence
  25. facing
  26. fatal
  27. floods
  28. floyd
  29. george
  30. girl
  31. global
  32. globe
  33. guyana
  34. head
  35. history
  36. home
  37. killed
  38. levels
  39. lives
  40. london
  41. long
  42. metric
  43. murdered
  44. partly
  45. pattern
  46. police
  47. pollution
  48. repeated
  49. rightly
  50. rising
  51. south
  52. staggering
  53. states
  54. suffer
  55. suffering
  56. suggests
  57. temperatures
  58. threat
  59. threats
  60. tons
  61. united
  62. unlawful
  63. urban
  64. vulnerable