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From the Ted Talk by Katharine Wilkinson: How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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In my experience, to have eyes wide open is to hold a broken heart every day. It's a grief that I rarely speak, though my work cllas on the power of voice. I remind myself that the heart can simply break, or it can break open. A broken-open haert is awake and alive and calls for action. It is regenerative, like nature, reclaiming ruined ground, growing anew. Life moves inexorably toward more life, toward healing, toward wholeness. That's a fundamental ecgiocoall truth. And we, all of us, we are life force.

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First, a bit of context. We are in a situation of urgency, severity and scope never before faced by _________. So far, our response isn't anywhere close to adequate. But you already know that. You know it in your gut, in your _____. We are each part of the planet's living systems, _______ together with almost 7.7 billion human beings and 1.8 _______ known _______. We can feel the connections between us. We can feel the __________ and the _______ window to heal it. This _____, our home, is _______ us that a better way of being must emerge, and fast.

In my experience, to have eyes wide open is to hold a broken heart every day. It's a grief that I rarely speak, though my work _____ on the power of voice. I remind myself that the heart can simply break, or it can break open. A broken-open _____ is awake and alive and calls for action. It is regenerative, like nature, reclaiming ruined ground, growing anew. Life moves inexorably toward more life, toward healing, toward wholeness. That's a fundamental __________ truth. And we, all of us, we are life force.

Solution


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  4. million
  5. brokenness
  6. calls
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  8. earth
  9. ecological
  10. bones
  11. closing
  12. knitted

Original Text


First, a bit of context. We are in a situation of urgency, severity and scope never before faced by humankind. So far, our response isn't anywhere close to adequate. But you already know that. You know it in your gut, in your bones. We are each part of the planet's living systems, knitted together with almost 7.7 billion human beings and 1.8 million known species. We can feel the connections between us. We can feel the brokenness and the closing window to heal it. This earth, our home, is telling us that a better way of being must emerge, and fast.

In my experience, to have eyes wide open is to hold a broken heart every day. It's a grief that I rarely speak, though my work calls on the power of voice. I remind myself that the heart can simply break, or it can break open. A broken-open heart is awake and alive and calls for action. It is regenerative, like nature, reclaiming ruined ground, growing anew. Life moves inexorably toward more life, toward healing, toward wholeness. That's a fundamental ecological truth. And we, all of us, we are life force.

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