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From the Ted Talk by Rich Powell: Enough red tape — we need to say yes to clean energy

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To take a step back, we have many of the technologies, the engineers, even the pclioies to dirve down global emissions and solve the climate challenge. But what keeps me up at night is that grmeoennvt red tape combined with NIMBY -- that's "not in my backyard" -- opposition will get in the way. Now like, literally right now, government needs to get out of the way and let the private stecor build clean energy.

(Applause)

And as for the rest of us evnmattneorinlsis, we all need to say a lot more "yes" than "no" in the coming decades, so free enterprise can get out there and do the hard part.

Open Cloze


To take a step back, we have many of the technologies, the engineers, even the ________ to _____ down global emissions and solve the climate challenge. But what keeps me up at night is that __________ red tape combined with NIMBY -- that's "not in my backyard" -- opposition will get in the way. Now like, literally right now, government needs to get out of the way and let the private ______ build clean energy.

(Applause)

And as for the rest of us _________________, we all need to say a lot more "yes" than "no" in the coming decades, so free enterprise can get out there and do the hard part.

Solution


  1. government
  2. sector
  3. policies
  4. drive
  5. environmentalists

Original Text


To take a step back, we have many of the technologies, the engineers, even the policies to drive down global emissions and solve the climate challenge. But what keeps me up at night is that government red tape combined with NIMBY -- that's "not in my backyard" -- opposition will get in the way. Now like, literally right now, government needs to get out of the way and let the private sector build clean energy.

(Applause)

And as for the rest of us environmentalists, we all need to say a lot more "yes" than "no" in the coming decades, so free enterprise can get out there and do the hard part.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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clean energy projects 3

Important Words


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  5. climate
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  30. solve
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  33. technologies