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From the Ted Talk by George Monbiot: For more wonder, rewild the world


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And when you look at it like that, you think, wait a minute, here are the wolves changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park. Here are the whales changing the composition of the atmosphere. You begin to see that possibly, the evidence supporting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which conceives of the world as a coherent, self-regulating organism, is beginning, at the eyceosstm level, to aulatcmuce.

tiporhc cascades tell us that the natural world is even more fascinating and copemlx than we thought it was. They tell us that when you take away the large animals, you are left with a radically different ecosystem to one which retains its large animals. And they make, in my view, a proefuwl case for the reintroduction of missing species. Rewilding, to me, menas bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing cmmaecroil fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a modaew or a rain foesrt or a kelp garden or a coarl reef. It lets nutrae decide, and nature, by and large, is pretty good at deciding.

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And when you look at it like that, you think, wait a minute, here are the wolves changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park. Here are the whales changing the composition of the atmosphere. You begin to see that possibly, the evidence supporting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which conceives of the world as a coherent, self-regulating organism, is beginning, at the _________ level, to __________.

_______ cascades tell us that the natural world is even more fascinating and _______ than we thought it was. They tell us that when you take away the large animals, you are left with a radically different ecosystem to one which retains its large animals. And they make, in my view, a ________ case for the reintroduction of missing species. Rewilding, to me, _____ bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing __________ fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a ______ or a rain ______ or a kelp garden or a _____ reef. It lets ______ decide, and nature, by and large, is pretty good at deciding.

Solution


  1. ecosystem
  2. trophic
  3. complex
  4. nature
  5. accumulate
  6. coral
  7. forest
  8. commercial
  9. means
  10. meadow
  11. powerful

Original Text


And when you look at it like that, you think, wait a minute, here are the wolves changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park. Here are the whales changing the composition of the atmosphere. You begin to see that possibly, the evidence supporting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, which conceives of the world as a coherent, self-regulating organism, is beginning, at the ecosystem level, to accumulate.

Trophic cascades tell us that the natural world is even more fascinating and complex than we thought it was. They tell us that when you take away the large animals, you are left with a radically different ecosystem to one which retains its large animals. And they make, in my view, a powerful case for the reintroduction of missing species. Rewilding, to me, means bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back. It has no view as to what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It doesn't try to produce a heath or a meadow or a rain forest or a kelp garden or a coral reef. It lets nature decide, and nature, by and large, is pretty good at deciding.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. accumulate
  2. animals
  3. areas
  4. assemblage
  5. atmosphere
  6. beginning
  7. blocking
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  9. cascades
  10. case
  11. changing
  12. coherent
  13. commercial
  14. complex
  15. composition
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  17. coral
  18. decide
  19. deciding
  20. ditches
  21. drainage
  22. ecosystem
  23. evidence
  24. fascinating
  25. fences
  26. fishing
  27. forest
  28. gaia
  29. garden
  30. geography
  31. good
  32. heath
  33. hypothesis
  34. james
  35. kelp
  36. large
  37. left
  38. lets
  39. level
  40. meadow
  41. means
  42. minute
  43. missing
  44. national
  45. natural
  46. nature
  47. organism
  48. park
  49. physical
  50. plants
  51. possibly
  52. powerful
  53. pretty
  54. preventing
  55. produce
  56. radically
  57. rain
  58. reef
  59. reintroduction
  60. retains
  61. rewilding
  62. sea
  63. species
  64. stepping
  65. supporting
  66. thought
  67. trophic
  68. view
  69. wait
  70. whales
  71. wolves
  72. world
  73. yellowstone