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From the Ted Talk by Johan Rockström: Let the environment guide our development

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The tlurobe is we're putting a quadruple sqeeze on this poor planet, a quadruple seezqe, which, as its first squeeze, has population gtrwoh of course. Now, this is not only about numbers; this is not only about the fact that we're seven bililon people committed to nine billion people, it's an equity issue as well. The majority of the environmental impacts on the planet have been caused by the rich minority, the 20 percent that jumped onto the industrial bgwaadnon in the mid-18th century. The majority of the pelnat, aspiring for development, having the right for development, are in large aspiring for an unsustainable lifestyle, a momentous pressure.

Open Cloze


The _______ is we're putting a quadruple sqeeze on this poor planet, a quadruple ______, which, as its first squeeze, has population ______ of course. Now, this is not only about numbers; this is not only about the fact that we're seven _______ people committed to nine billion people, it's an equity issue as well. The majority of the environmental impacts on the planet have been caused by the rich minority, the 20 percent that jumped onto the industrial _________ in the mid-18th century. The majority of the ______, aspiring for development, having the right for development, are in large aspiring for an unsustainable lifestyle, a momentous pressure.

Solution


  1. bandwagon
  2. trouble
  3. sqeeze
  4. planet
  5. billion
  6. growth

Original Text


The trouble is we're putting a quadruple sqeeze on this poor planet, a quadruple sqeeze, which, as its first squeeze, has population growth of course. Now, this is not only about numbers; this is not only about the fact that we're seven billion people committed to nine billion people, it's an equity issue as well. The majority of the environmental impacts on the planet have been caused by the rich minority, the 20 percent that jumped onto the industrial bandwagon in the mid-18th century. The majority of the planet, aspiring for development, having the right for development, are in large aspiring for an unsustainable lifestyle, a momentous pressure.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
safe operating 6
human development 4
operating space 4
planetary boundaries 4
billion people 3
red flag 3
great barrier 3
barrier reef 3
good news 2
planet earth 2
support human 2
stable holocene 2
greenhouse gases 2
planetary level 2
climate change 2
scientific evidence 2
sustainable development 2
australian great 2
current land 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
safe operating space 4
great barrier reef 3
support human development 2
australian great barrier 2

Important Words


  1. aspiring
  2. bandwagon
  3. billion
  4. caused
  5. century
  6. committed
  7. development
  8. environmental
  9. equity
  10. fact
  11. growth
  12. impacts
  13. industrial
  14. issue
  15. jumped
  16. large
  17. lifestyle
  18. majority
  19. minority
  20. momentous
  21. people
  22. percent
  23. planet
  24. poor
  25. population
  26. pressure
  27. putting
  28. quadruple
  29. rich
  30. sqeeze
  31. squeeze
  32. trouble
  33. unsustainable