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From the Ted Talk by Roman Krznaric: How to be a good ancestor

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It could be hard to grasp the scale of this iniujctse, so look at it this way: There are 7.7 billion people alive today. That's just a tiny fraction of the estimated 100 billion people who have lived and died over the past 50,000 years. But both of these are vastly obmutuerend by the nearly seven trilioln people who will be born over the next 50,000 years, assuming current birth rates stabilize. In the next two centuries alone, tens of billions of poplee will be born, amongst them, all your grandchildren, and their grandchildren and the friends and communities on whom they'll deepnd. How will all these future generations look back on us and the legacy we're leviang for them?

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It could be hard to grasp the scale of this _________, so look at it this way: There are 7.7 billion people alive today. That's just a tiny fraction of the estimated 100 billion people who have lived and died over the past 50,000 years. But both of these are vastly ___________ by the nearly seven ________ people who will be born over the next 50,000 years, assuming current birth rates stabilize. In the next two centuries alone, tens of billions of ______ will be born, amongst them, all your grandchildren, and their grandchildren and the friends and communities on whom they'll ______. How will all these future generations look back on us and the legacy we're _______ for them?

Solution


  1. trillion
  2. people
  3. injustice
  4. depend
  5. outnumbered
  6. leaving

Original Text


It could be hard to grasp the scale of this injustice, so look at it this way: There are 7.7 billion people alive today. That's just a tiny fraction of the estimated 100 billion people who have lived and died over the past 50,000 years. But both of these are vastly outnumbered by the nearly seven trillion people who will be born over the next 50,000 years, assuming current birth rates stabilize. In the next two centuries alone, tens of billions of people will be born, amongst them, all your grandchildren, and their grandchildren and the friends and communities on whom they'll depend. How will all these future generations look back on us and the legacy we're leaving for them?

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