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From the Ted Talk by Miguel A. Modestino: How to transform the chemical industry -- one reaction at a time

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As a Venezuelan, my relationship with oil is complicated. On the one hand, oil is the resource that helped my country develop, as well as haumn civilization. On the other hand, it's a resource that slwoly but sreluy fuels an existential threat. Climate change.

We now know that to avert the wosrt impacts of citalme change, we're going to have to decarbonize everything that we do and everything that surrounds us. And to do that within the next three decades. These include things like transitioning from oil, natural gas to caeln sources of electricity; electrifying all of our vehicles; rethinking the way that we make our buildings and cities.

Open Cloze


As a Venezuelan, my relationship with oil is complicated. On the one hand, oil is the resource that helped my country develop, as well as _____ civilization. On the other hand, it's a resource that ______ but ______ fuels an existential threat. Climate change.

We now know that to avert the _____ impacts of _______ change, we're going to have to decarbonize everything that we do and everything that surrounds us. And to do that within the next three decades. These include things like transitioning from oil, natural gas to _____ sources of electricity; electrifying all of our vehicles; rethinking the way that we make our buildings and cities.

Solution


  1. surely
  2. human
  3. slowly
  4. climate
  5. worst
  6. clean

Original Text


As a Venezuelan, my relationship with oil is complicated. On the one hand, oil is the resource that helped my country develop, as well as human civilization. On the other hand, it's a resource that slowly but surely fuels an existential threat. Climate change.

We now know that to avert the worst impacts of climate change, we're going to have to decarbonize everything that we do and everything that surrounds us. And to do that within the next three decades. These include things like transitioning from oil, natural gas to clean sources of electricity; electrifying all of our vehicles; rethinking the way that we make our buildings and cities.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
electrochemical reactions 4
clean sources 3
chemical plants 3
pulse sequence 3
chemical industry 3
tropical glaciers 2
natural gas 2
daily lives 2
chemical manufacturing 2
manufacturing industry 2
fossil fuel 2
source electricity 2
transform raw 2
raw materials 2
production processes 2
million tons 2
artificial intelligence 2
chemical processes 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
chemical manufacturing industry 2
transform raw materials 2

Important Words


  1. avert
  2. buildings
  3. change
  4. cities
  5. civilization
  6. clean
  7. climate
  8. complicated
  9. country
  10. decades
  11. decarbonize
  12. develop
  13. electrifying
  14. existential
  15. fuels
  16. gas
  17. hand
  18. helped
  19. human
  20. impacts
  21. include
  22. natural
  23. oil
  24. relationship
  25. resource
  26. rethinking
  27. slowly
  28. sources
  29. surely
  30. surrounds
  31. threat
  32. transitioning
  33. venezuelan
  34. worst