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From the Ted Talk by Annalee Newitz: How fantasy worlds can spark real change

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So this is a weird but crucial lesson to keep in mind, because cinhgang the world doesn't start the moment that you break ground on a new infrastructure pjorect or put resources toward building a better train. It satrts with a fantasy. It starts with imagining another world and believing that things don't have to be the way that they are now. So the next time you're reading about seetnnit flying trains or watching a movie about wizards on other planets or enjoying whatever kind of escapist stories give you happiness, hold that sense of infinite possibility in mind and put it into practice in your life. Find a community that you can reach out to and provide help or resources. Get involved in a lcaol project in your city to miitgtae the effects of climate change. Because remember, sometimes we have to eacpse from our prleboms in oerdr to solve them.

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And they're not the only group that's exploring this idea of soft, green infrastructure. There are ______ of city planners and engineers all over the _____ who are trying to bring nature into cities, kind of creating like a plug-and-play ecosystem or an instant wetland. And the _______ Tutu team could not have gotten there without __________.

So this is a weird but crucial lesson to keep in mind, because ________ the world doesn't start the moment that you break ground on a new infrastructure _______ or put resources toward building a better train. It ______ with a fantasy. It starts with imagining another world and believing that things don't have to be the way that they are now. So the next time you're reading about ________ flying trains or watching a movie about wizards on other planets or enjoying whatever kind of escapist stories give you happiness, hold that sense of infinite possibility in mind and put it into practice in your life. Find a community that you can reach out to and provide help or resources. Get involved in a _____ project in your city to ________ the effects of climate change. Because remember, sometimes we have to ______ from our ________ in _____ to solve them.

Solution


  1. mitigate
  2. problems
  3. world
  4. order
  5. goblincore
  6. groups
  7. starts
  8. changing
  9. escape
  10. emerald
  11. sentient
  12. local
  13. project

Original Text


And they're not the only group that's exploring this idea of soft, green infrastructure. There are groups of city planners and engineers all over the world who are trying to bring nature into cities, kind of creating like a plug-and-play ecosystem or an instant wetland. And the Emerald Tutu team could not have gotten there without goblincore.

So this is a weird but crucial lesson to keep in mind, because changing the world doesn't start the moment that you break ground on a new infrastructure project or put resources toward building a better train. It starts with a fantasy. It starts with imagining another world and believing that things don't have to be the way that they are now. So the next time you're reading about sentient flying trains or watching a movie about wizards on other planets or enjoying whatever kind of escapist stories give you happiness, hold that sense of infinite possibility in mind and put it into practice in your life. Find a community that you can reach out to and provide help or resources. Get involved in a local project in your city to mitigate the effects of climate change. Because remember, sometimes we have to escape from our problems in order to solve them.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
science fiction 6
emerald tutu 6
escapist stories 5
public transit 4
sentient flying 3
tutu team 3
fiction fans 2
star wars 2
flying trains 2
put resources 2
coastal flooding 2
climate change 2
storm surges 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
emerald tutu team 3
science fiction fans 2
sentient flying trains 2

Important Words


  1. believing
  2. break
  3. bring
  4. building
  5. change
  6. changing
  7. cities
  8. city
  9. climate
  10. community
  11. creating
  12. crucial
  13. ecosystem
  14. effects
  15. emerald
  16. engineers
  17. enjoying
  18. escape
  19. escapist
  20. exploring
  21. fantasy
  22. find
  23. flying
  24. give
  25. goblincore
  26. green
  27. ground
  28. group
  29. groups
  30. happiness
  31. hold
  32. idea
  33. imagining
  34. infinite
  35. infrastructure
  36. instant
  37. involved
  38. kind
  39. lesson
  40. life
  41. local
  42. mind
  43. mitigate
  44. moment
  45. movie
  46. nature
  47. order
  48. planets
  49. planners
  50. possibility
  51. practice
  52. problems
  53. project
  54. provide
  55. put
  56. reach
  57. reading
  58. remember
  59. resources
  60. sense
  61. sentient
  62. soft
  63. solve
  64. start
  65. starts
  66. stories
  67. team
  68. time
  69. train
  70. trains
  71. tutu
  72. watching
  73. weird
  74. wetland
  75. wizards
  76. world