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From the Ted Talk by Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests

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We have in the world about four billion heretcas of forests. This is more or less China, U.S., Canada and birazl all together, in terms of size, to have an idea. Three quarters of that is in the temperate zone, and just one quarter is in the tropics, but this one quarter, one billion hectares, holds most of the biodiversity, and very importantly, 50 percent of the living biomass, the corban. Now, we used to have six billion hectares of forest — 50 percent more than what we have — 2,000 years ago. We've actually lost two billion hectares in the last 2,000 yreas. But in the last 100 years, we lost half of that. That was when we shifted from dstteoforeain of tmepterae forests to deforestation of tropical forests.

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We have in the world about four billion ________ of forests. This is more or less China, U.S., Canada and ______ all together, in terms of size, to have an idea. Three quarters of that is in the temperate zone, and just one quarter is in the tropics, but this one quarter, one billion hectares, holds most of the biodiversity, and very importantly, 50 percent of the living biomass, the ______. Now, we used to have six billion hectares of forest — 50 percent more than what we have — 2,000 years ago. We've actually lost two billion hectares in the last 2,000 _____. But in the last 100 years, we lost half of that. That was when we shifted from _____________ of _________ forests to deforestation of tropical forests.

Solution


  1. deforestation
  2. hectares
  3. temperate
  4. years
  5. brazil
  6. carbon

Original Text


We have in the world about four billion hectares of forests. This is more or less China, U.S., Canada and Brazil all together, in terms of size, to have an idea. Three quarters of that is in the temperate zone, and just one quarter is in the tropics, but this one quarter, one billion hectares, holds most of the biodiversity, and very importantly, 50 percent of the living biomass, the carbon. Now, we used to have six billion hectares of forest — 50 percent more than what we have — 2,000 years ago. We've actually lost two billion hectares in the last 2,000 years. But in the last 100 years, we lost half of that. That was when we shifted from deforestation of temperate forests to deforestation of tropical forests.

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temperate forests 2
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cold weather 2
trillion dollars 2
fossil fuels 2

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greenhouse gas emissions 2

Important Words


  1. billion
  2. biodiversity
  3. biomass
  4. brazil
  5. canada
  6. carbon
  7. china
  8. deforestation
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  15. living
  16. lost
  17. percent
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  20. shifted
  21. size
  22. temperate
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  24. tropical
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  27. years
  28. zone