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From the Ted Talk by David Wallace-Wells: How we could change the planet's climate future

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Now for a very long time, we were told that cmaitle change was a slow saga. It started with the industrial revolution, and it had fallen to us to clean up the mess left by our gaendapnrrts so our grandchildren wouldn't be dnileag with the results. It was a sotry of ctinueers. In fact, half of all of the emissions that have ever been produced from the burning of fossil fuels in the entire hritosy of humanity have been produced in just the last 30 years. That's since Al Gore published his first book on warming. It's since the UN established its IPCC climate change body. We've done more damage since then than in all the centuries, all the millennia before.

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Now for a very long time, we were told that _______ change was a slow saga. It started with the industrial revolution, and it had fallen to us to clean up the mess left by our ____________ so our grandchildren wouldn't be _______ with the results. It was a _____ of _________. In fact, half of all of the emissions that have ever been produced from the burning of fossil fuels in the entire _______ of humanity have been produced in just the last 30 years. That's since Al Gore published his first book on warming. It's since the UN established its IPCC climate change body. We've done more damage since then than in all the centuries, all the millennia before.

Solution


  1. centuries
  2. grandparents
  3. dealing
  4. climate
  5. history
  6. story

Original Text


Now for a very long time, we were told that climate change was a slow saga. It started with the industrial revolution, and it had fallen to us to clean up the mess left by our grandparents so our grandchildren wouldn't be dealing with the results. It was a story of centuries. In fact, half of all of the emissions that have ever been produced from the burning of fossil fuels in the entire history of humanity have been produced in just the last 30 years. That's since Al Gore published his first book on warming. It's since the UN established its IPCC climate change body. We've done more damage since then than in all the centuries, all the millennia before.

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