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From the Ted Talk by Fehinti Balogun: How to find your voice for climate action

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(Applause)

It feels scary because it feels like a concept, even though our society is quite literally based on it. Infinite growth with finite rrseuecos at whatever the cost. Those forms of oppression wouldn't exist if it didn't make someone money. I mean, in the UK. slavery plantations in the Caribbean provided the raw materials needed for industrial change and growth in the btsirih Empire, money. Not to mention the gdieneocs and the conquests, more money. The leabiriotn of oil by liberators, that deiearblte the price of liberation whilst pntlliuog soil. Get that moeny.

Shout out to sehll, by the way, who hsrililtaocy have taken oil from my country of origin, Nigeria. Nigeria, who pollutes almost ten times less than England. As do so many colonized countries, and you know what? It seems to me that some of the people who are the most affected pollute the least. The ones who have been historically stolen from.

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It feels scary because it feels like a concept, even though our society is quite literally based on it. Infinite growth with finite _________ at whatever the cost. Those forms of oppression wouldn't exist if it didn't make someone money. I mean, in the UK. slavery plantations in the Caribbean provided the raw materials needed for industrial change and growth in the _______ Empire, money. Not to mention the _________ and the conquests, more money. The __________ of oil by liberators, that __________ the price of liberation whilst _________ soil. Get that _____.

Shout out to _____, by the way, who ____________ have taken oil from my country of origin, Nigeria. Nigeria, who pollutes almost ten times less than England. As do so many colonized countries, and you know what? It seems to me that some of the people who are the most affected pollute the least. The ones who have been historically stolen from.

Solution


  1. genocides
  2. resources
  3. polluting
  4. liberation
  5. money
  6. historically
  7. shell
  8. deliberate
  9. british

Original Text


(Applause)

It feels scary because it feels like a concept, even though our society is quite literally based on it. Infinite growth with finite resources at whatever the cost. Those forms of oppression wouldn't exist if it didn't make someone money. I mean, in the UK. slavery plantations in the Caribbean provided the raw materials needed for industrial change and growth in the British Empire, money. Not to mention the genocides and the conquests, more money. The liberation of oil by liberators, that deliberate the price of liberation whilst polluting soil. Get that money.

Shout out to Shell, by the way, who historically have taken oil from my country of origin, Nigeria. Nigeria, who pollutes almost ten times less than England. As do so many colonized countries, and you know what? It seems to me that some of the people who are the most affected pollute the least. The ones who have been historically stolen from.

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