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From the Ted Talk by Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change

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The most mivsase tsuanmi perfect storm is bearing down upon us. This perfect srotm is mounting a grim reality, iesniralngcy grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable. Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion ppolee, land that is turning to desert, and, of course, climate change.

Now there's no question about it at all: we will only solve the problem of replacing fossil fuels with technology. But fosisl fuels, carbon — coal and gas — are by no means the only thing that is causing climate chgnae.

Open Cloze


The most _______ _______ perfect storm is bearing down upon us. This perfect _____ is mounting a grim reality, ____________ grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable. Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion ______, land that is turning to desert, and, of course, climate change.

Now there's no question about it at all: we will only solve the problem of replacing fossil fuels with technology. But ______ fuels, carbon — coal and gas — are by no means the only thing that is causing climate ______.

Solution


  1. massive
  2. change
  3. storm
  4. people
  5. tsunami
  6. fossil
  7. increasingly

Original Text


The most massive tsunami perfect storm is bearing down upon us. This perfect storm is mounting a grim reality, increasingly grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable. Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion people, land that is turning to desert, and, of course, climate change.

Now there's no question about it at all: we will only solve the problem of replacing fossil fuels with technology. But fossil fuels, carbon — coal and gas — are by no means the only thing that is causing climate change.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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climate change 7
mimic nature 5
perfect storm 3
fossil fuels 3
bare ground 3
dry season 3
causing climate 2
land looked 2
national parks 2
long dry 2
causing desertification 2
feed people 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
causing climate change 2
long dry season 2

Important Words


  1. bearing
  2. belief
  3. billion
  4. carbon
  5. causing
  6. change
  7. climate
  8. coal
  9. desert
  10. facing
  11. fossil
  12. fuels
  13. full
  14. gas
  15. grim
  16. increasingly
  17. land
  18. massive
  19. means
  20. mounting
  21. people
  22. perfect
  23. population
  24. problem
  25. problems
  26. question
  27. reality
  28. replacing
  29. result
  30. rising
  31. solve
  32. storm
  33. technology
  34. tsunami
  35. turning
  36. understandable