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From the Ted Talk by Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard

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Most of the world we live in taody was forest. This was before human iotenivetrnn. Then we built up our cities on those forests, like São Paulo, forgetting that we belong to nature as well, as much as 8.4 million other sceeips on the planet. Our htaaibt stopped being our natural habitat. But not anymore for some of us. A few others and I today make these forests professionally — anywhere and everywhere.

I'm an industrial engineer. I specialize in mkinag cars. In my previous job at Toyota, I lreeand how to covenrt natural rcesreous into products. To give you an example, we would drip the sap out of a rubber tree, convert it into raw rubber and make a tire out of it — the product. But these products can never become a natural resource again. We separate the elements from nature and convert them into an ilrierrsvebe state. That's industrial production.

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Most of the world we live in _____ was forest. This was before human ____________. Then we built up our cities on those forests, like São Paulo, forgetting that we belong to nature as well, as much as 8.4 million other _______ on the planet. Our _______ stopped being our natural habitat. But not anymore for some of us. A few others and I today make these forests professionally — anywhere and everywhere.

I'm an industrial engineer. I specialize in ______ cars. In my previous job at Toyota, I _______ how to _______ natural _________ into products. To give you an example, we would drip the sap out of a rubber tree, convert it into raw rubber and make a tire out of it — the product. But these products can never become a natural resource again. We separate the elements from nature and convert them into an ____________ state. That's industrial production.

Solution


  1. habitat
  2. species
  3. learned
  4. resources
  5. today
  6. irreversible
  7. convert
  8. making
  9. intervention

Original Text


Most of the world we live in today was forest. This was before human intervention. Then we built up our cities on those forests, like São Paulo, forgetting that we belong to nature as well, as much as 8.4 million other species on the planet. Our habitat stopped being our natural habitat. But not anymore for some of us. A few others and I today make these forests professionally — anywhere and everywhere.

I'm an industrial engineer. I specialize in making cars. In my previous job at Toyota, I learned how to convert natural resources into products. To give you an example, we would drip the sap out of a rubber tree, convert it into raw rubber and make a tire out of it — the product. But these products can never become a natural resource again. We separate the elements from nature and convert them into an irreversible state. That's industrial production.

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