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From the Ted Talk by Myles Allen: Fossil fuel companies know how to stop global warming. Why don't they?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


For some applications like aviation fuel, for example, we can't capture the cboran dxoiide at source, so we have to recapture it, take it back out of the atmosphere. That can be done; there's companies already doing it, but it's more expensive. And this potins to the single most important reason why recapturing and safe disposal of carbon dioxide is not already standard practice: cost. It's ineiiftlny cpeeahr just to dump carbon dioxide into the apesrmtohe than it is to ctuarpe it and dispose of it safely back underground.

But the good news is, we don't need to dispose of 100 percent of the carbon dioxide we gentaree from burning fossil fuels right away. Economists talk about cost-effective pathways, by which they mean ways of achieving a result without unfairly dumping too much of the cost onto the next gereitaonn. And a cost-effective pathway, which gets us to decarbonizing fossil fuels, 100 percent carbon capture and storage by 2050, which is what net-zero means, takes us through 10 pernect carbon capture in 2030, 50 percent in 2040, 100 percent in 2050.

Open Cloze


For some applications like aviation fuel, for example, we can't capture the ______ _______ at source, so we have to recapture it, take it back out of the atmosphere. That can be done; there's companies already doing it, but it's more expensive. And this ______ to the single most important reason why recapturing and safe disposal of carbon dioxide is not already standard practice: cost. It's __________ _______ just to dump carbon dioxide into the __________ than it is to _______ it and dispose of it safely back underground.

But the good news is, we don't need to dispose of 100 percent of the carbon dioxide we ________ from burning fossil fuels right away. Economists talk about cost-effective pathways, by which they mean ways of achieving a result without unfairly dumping too much of the cost onto the next __________. And a cost-effective pathway, which gets us to decarbonizing fossil fuels, 100 percent carbon capture and storage by 2050, which is what net-zero means, takes us through 10 _______ carbon capture in 2030, 50 percent in 2040, 100 percent in 2050.

Solution


  1. generation
  2. capture
  3. percent
  4. generate
  5. cheaper
  6. dioxide
  7. infinitely
  8. points
  9. atmosphere
  10. carbon

Original Text


For some applications like aviation fuel, for example, we can't capture the carbon dioxide at source, so we have to recapture it, take it back out of the atmosphere. That can be done; there's companies already doing it, but it's more expensive. And this points to the single most important reason why recapturing and safe disposal of carbon dioxide is not already standard practice: cost. It's infinitely cheaper just to dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it is to capture it and dispose of it safely back underground.

But the good news is, we don't need to dispose of 100 percent of the carbon dioxide we generate from burning fossil fuels right away. Economists talk about cost-effective pathways, by which they mean ways of achieving a result without unfairly dumping too much of the cost onto the next generation. And a cost-effective pathway, which gets us to decarbonizing fossil fuels, 100 percent carbon capture and storage by 2050, which is what net-zero means, takes us through 10 percent carbon capture in 2030, 50 percent in 2040, 100 percent in 2050.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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