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From the Ted Talk by Jane Goodall: Every day you live, you impact the planet

Unscramble the Blue Letters


CA: So you spent the last 34 years sort of tresliesly ciimpnanagg for a better relationship between people and nature. What should that relationship look like?

JG: Well, you know, again you come up with all these problems. People have to have space to live. But I think the problem is that we've become, in the affluent societies, too gredey. I mean, honestly, who needs four houses with huge grounds? And why do we need yet another shopping mall? And so on and so on. So we are looking at short-term economic benefit, money has become a sort of god to worship, as we lose all spiritual ctonecnoin with the natural wrlod. And so we're looking for short-term mnroeaty gain, or power, rather than the hatelh of the planet and the future of our children. We don't seem to care about that anymore. That's why I'll never stop fighting.

Open Cloze


CA: So you spent the last 34 years sort of __________ ___________ for a better relationship between people and nature. What should that relationship look like?

JG: Well, you know, again you come up with all these problems. People have to have space to live. But I think the problem is that we've become, in the affluent societies, too ______. I mean, honestly, who needs four houses with huge grounds? And why do we need yet another shopping mall? And so on and so on. So we are looking at short-term economic benefit, money has become a sort of god to worship, as we lose all spiritual __________ with the natural _____. And so we're looking for short-term ________ gain, or power, rather than the ______ of the planet and the future of our children. We don't seem to care about that anymore. That's why I'll never stop fighting.

Solution


  1. health
  2. world
  3. greedy
  4. campaigning
  5. monetary
  6. tirelessly
  7. connection

Original Text


CA: So you spent the last 34 years sort of tirelessly campaigning for a better relationship between people and nature. What should that relationship look like?

JG: Well, you know, again you come up with all these problems. People have to have space to live. But I think the problem is that we've become, in the affluent societies, too greedy. I mean, honestly, who needs four houses with huge grounds? And why do we need yet another shopping mall? And so on and so on. So we are looking at short-term economic benefit, money has become a sort of god to worship, as we lose all spiritual connection with the natural world. And so we're looking for short-term monetary gain, or power, rather than the health of the planet and the future of our children. We don't seem to care about that anymore. That's why I'll never stop fighting.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
natural world 5
put trees 2
national park 2


Important Words


  1. affluent
  2. anymore
  3. benefit
  4. campaigning
  5. care
  6. children
  7. connection
  8. economic
  9. fighting
  10. future
  11. gain
  12. god
  13. greedy
  14. grounds
  15. health
  16. honestly
  17. houses
  18. huge
  19. live
  20. lose
  21. mall
  22. monetary
  23. money
  24. natural
  25. nature
  26. people
  27. planet
  28. power
  29. problem
  30. problems
  31. relationship
  32. shopping
  33. societies
  34. sort
  35. space
  36. spent
  37. spiritual
  38. stop
  39. tirelessly
  40. world
  41. worship
  42. years