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From the Ted Talk by Jens Burchardt: How we can curb climate change by spending two percent more on everything

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This is a lump of coal. It was mined a while ago in the Ruhr region in Germany, about 50 melis from where I grew up. As coal goes, it's actually quite high-end. It's very dry, it has a high share of carbon in it. Both those things mean you can't only burn it to produce power and heat, but you can use it to make steel. Now why am I telling you this? By the end of this talk, I want to have convinced you that we can make a huge step forward in the great fight against ciatlme chngae by just sidnnpeg one to two precnet more on things that we buy. And the path of this coal is going to help me with it.

Open Cloze


This is a lump of coal. It was mined a while ago in the Ruhr region in Germany, about 50 _____ from where I grew up. As coal goes, it's actually quite high-end. It's very dry, it has a high share of carbon in it. Both those things mean you can't only burn it to produce power and heat, but you can use it to make steel. Now why am I telling you this? By the end of this talk, I want to have convinced you that we can make a huge step forward in the great fight against _______ ______ by just ________ one to two _______ more on things that we buy. And the path of this coal is going to help me with it.

Solution


  1. change
  2. percent
  3. spending
  4. miles
  5. climate

Original Text


This is a lump of coal. It was mined a while ago in the Ruhr region in Germany, about 50 miles from where I grew up. As coal goes, it's actually quite high-end. It's very dry, it has a high share of carbon in it. Both those things mean you can't only burn it to produce power and heat, but you can use it to make steel. Now why am I telling you this? By the end of this talk, I want to have convinced you that we can make a huge step forward in the great fight against climate change by just spending one to two percent more on things that we buy. And the path of this coal is going to help me with it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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international climate 2
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final sales price 2

Important Words


  1. burn
  2. buy
  3. carbon
  4. change
  5. climate
  6. coal
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  10. germany
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  23. region
  24. ruhr
  25. share
  26. spending
  27. steel
  28. step
  29. talk
  30. telling