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From the Ted Talk by TED Countdown: How do we get the world off fossil fuels quickly and fairly?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Those who have the competency tdaoy to manage this ctplxemoiy and the balance sehet is still the oil and gas industry, whether we like it or not. So I would take the oil and gas industry as an opportunity to go faster, to make it right better than we would do it without them. But if it doesn't prove possible because the oil and gas industry doesn't shift and doesn't adapt, we must do without.

Ramez Naam: Oil and gas companies have to realize -- they don't always, but they really should realize -- the wirintg is on the wall. We're spending cosle to twice as much on clean energy as we are on fossil fuel infrastructure already, and that gap is just going to widen and widen. So I think if we can pivot those companies, that industry, into working on a clean future, it's a good thing. But we shouldn't have illusions that it's going to happen by itself. The pivot that has happened has been because companies have seen that the furtue is clean. And so a ciotmabonin of continuing to push on policy, on citizen advocacy and on driving for the tolehocgenis that dsuiprt fossil fuels is what will cause those large, entrenched fossil fuel companies to poivt towards the clean future.

Open Cloze


Those who have the competency _____ to manage this __________ and the balance _____ is still the oil and gas industry, whether we like it or not. So I would take the oil and gas industry as an opportunity to go faster, to make it right better than we would do it without them. But if it doesn't prove possible because the oil and gas industry doesn't shift and doesn't adapt, we must do without.

Ramez Naam: Oil and gas companies have to realize -- they don't always, but they really should realize -- the _______ is on the wall. We're spending _____ to twice as much on clean energy as we are on fossil fuel infrastructure already, and that gap is just going to widen and widen. So I think if we can pivot those companies, that industry, into working on a clean future, it's a good thing. But we shouldn't have illusions that it's going to happen by itself. The pivot that has happened has been because companies have seen that the ______ is clean. And so a ___________ of continuing to push on policy, on citizen advocacy and on driving for the ____________ that _______ fossil fuels is what will cause those large, entrenched fossil fuel companies to _____ towards the clean future.

Solution


  1. combination
  2. writing
  3. technologies
  4. complexity
  5. future
  6. sheet
  7. pivot
  8. today
  9. disrupt
  10. close

Original Text


Those who have the competency today to manage this complexity and the balance sheet is still the oil and gas industry, whether we like it or not. So I would take the oil and gas industry as an opportunity to go faster, to make it right better than we would do it without them. But if it doesn't prove possible because the oil and gas industry doesn't shift and doesn't adapt, we must do without.

Ramez Naam: Oil and gas companies have to realize -- they don't always, but they really should realize -- the writing is on the wall. We're spending close to twice as much on clean energy as we are on fossil fuel infrastructure already, and that gap is just going to widen and widen. So I think if we can pivot those companies, that industry, into working on a clean future, it's a good thing. But we shouldn't have illusions that it's going to happen by itself. The pivot that has happened has been because companies have seen that the future is clean. And so a combination of continuing to push on policy, on citizen advocacy and on driving for the technologies that disrupt fossil fuels is what will cause those large, entrenched fossil fuel companies to pivot towards the clean future.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
fossil fuels 23
fossil fuel 18
clean energy 14
climate change 10
poor countries 5
fuel industry 5
poor people 5
climate crisis 4
carbon emissions 4
natural gas 4
energy transition 4
energy system 3
gas industry 3
fuel infrastructure 3
united states 3
renewable energy 3
energy demand 3
rich countries 2
burning fossil 2
leading voices 2
modern energy 2
coal mines 2
north sea 2
gas companies 2
crisis manmade 2
fairy tales 2
fuel industries 2
kilowatt hours 2
address climate 2
energy sources 2
power plants 2
practical approach 2
energy resources 2
financial flows 2
emily grubert 2
build trust 2
solar resource 2
bring power 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
fossil fuel industry 5
fossil fuel infrastructure 3
burning fossil fuels 2
climate crisis manmade 2
fossil fuel industries 2
address climate change 2
renewable energy resources 2

Important Words


  1. adapt
  2. advocacy
  3. balance
  4. citizen
  5. clean
  6. close
  7. combination
  8. companies
  9. competency
  10. complexity
  11. continuing
  12. disrupt
  13. driving
  14. energy
  15. entrenched
  16. faster
  17. fossil
  18. fuel
  19. fuels
  20. future
  21. gap
  22. gas
  23. good
  24. happen
  25. happened
  26. illusions
  27. industry
  28. infrastructure
  29. large
  30. manage
  31. oil
  32. opportunity
  33. pivot
  34. policy
  35. prove
  36. push
  37. ramez
  38. realize
  39. sheet
  40. shift
  41. spending
  42. technologies
  43. today
  44. wall
  45. widen
  46. working
  47. writing