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From the Ted Talk by Renée Lertzman: How to turn climate anxiety into action

Unscramble the Blue Letters


It's deeply painful to face what's happening on our planet right now. From foterss burning, ocean plastic, species just gone each day, displacement. It's easy to feel totally overwhelmed. Maybe a bit hplesels. prswoeels. Angry. On fire. Numb. Disconnected. Perhaps all of the above.

These messy and complicated fleniegs, they make toatl sense. I wish that someone had said this to me 30 years ago. I was a college freshman taking environmental studies, which is bacalilsy a semester of really bad news about all the ways that humans have profoundly damaged our bueaitufl earth. And I felt like I had been dropped into a dark tunnel, given no tools to get out and yet expected to carry on with my everyday life as if things were normal. But once you're exposed to that kind of information, things are not noraml anymore. And I was anxious, I was trieferid, no one was talking about this, and I almost dropped out of sohcol, for real.

Open Cloze


It's deeply painful to face what's happening on our planet right now. From _______ burning, ocean plastic, species just gone each day, displacement. It's easy to feel totally overwhelmed. Maybe a bit ________. _________. Angry. On fire. Numb. Disconnected. Perhaps all of the above.

These messy and complicated ________, they make _____ sense. I wish that someone had said this to me 30 years ago. I was a college freshman taking environmental studies, which is _________ a semester of really bad news about all the ways that humans have profoundly damaged our _________ earth. And I felt like I had been dropped into a dark tunnel, given no tools to get out and yet expected to carry on with my everyday life as if things were normal. But once you're exposed to that kind of information, things are not ______ anymore. And I was anxious, I was _________, no one was talking about this, and I almost dropped out of ______, for real.

Solution


  1. school
  2. beautiful
  3. basically
  4. normal
  5. helpless
  6. total
  7. forests
  8. powerless
  9. feelings
  10. terrified

Original Text


It's deeply painful to face what's happening on our planet right now. From forests burning, ocean plastic, species just gone each day, displacement. It's easy to feel totally overwhelmed. Maybe a bit helpless. Powerless. Angry. On fire. Numb. Disconnected. Perhaps all of the above.

These messy and complicated feelings, they make total sense. I wish that someone had said this to me 30 years ago. I was a college freshman taking environmental studies, which is basically a semester of really bad news about all the ways that humans have profoundly damaged our beautiful earth. And I felt like I had been dropped into a dark tunnel, given no tools to get out and yet expected to carry on with my everyday life as if things were normal. But once you're exposed to that kind of information, things are not normal anymore. And I was anxious, I was terrified, no one was talking about this, and I almost dropped out of school, for real.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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