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From the Ted Talk by Jamie Drummond: Let's crowdsource the world's goals

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JD: It does, and we're having a huge debate in this country about aid lvlees, for example, and aid alone is not the whole solution. Nobody thinks it is. But, you know, if people saw the results of this smart aid, I mean, they'd be going crzay for it. I wish the 250,000 people who really did march outside this very building knew these results. Right now they don't, and it would be gaert to find a way to better communicate it, because we have not. Creatively, we've failed to communicate this success so far. If those kdnis of efforts just could multiply their voice and amplify it at the key moments, I know for a fact we'd get better pcloiy. The Mexican G20 need not have been a bust. Rio, if anyone cares about the environment, need not have been a bust, okay? But these conferences are going on, and I know people get skeptical and cynical about the big global smiumts and the promises and their never being kept, but actually, the bits that are, are miknag a difference, and what the piciitalons need is more permission from the public.

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JD: It does, and we're having a huge debate in this country about aid ______, for example, and aid alone is not the whole solution. Nobody thinks it is. But, you know, if people saw the results of this smart aid, I mean, they'd be going _____ for it. I wish the 250,000 people who really did march outside this very building knew these results. Right now they don't, and it would be _____ to find a way to better communicate it, because we have not. Creatively, we've failed to communicate this success so far. If those _____ of efforts just could multiply their voice and amplify it at the key moments, I know for a fact we'd get better ______. The Mexican G20 need not have been a bust. Rio, if anyone cares about the environment, need not have been a bust, okay? But these conferences are going on, and I know people get skeptical and cynical about the big global _______ and the promises and their never being kept, but actually, the bits that are, are ______ a difference, and what the ___________ need is more permission from the public.

Solution


  1. policy
  2. crazy
  3. kinds
  4. summits
  5. levels
  6. making
  7. politicians
  8. great

Original Text


JD: It does, and we're having a huge debate in this country about aid levels, for example, and aid alone is not the whole solution. Nobody thinks it is. But, you know, if people saw the results of this smart aid, I mean, they'd be going crazy for it. I wish the 250,000 people who really did march outside this very building knew these results. Right now they don't, and it would be great to find a way to better communicate it, because we have not. Creatively, we've failed to communicate this success so far. If those kinds of efforts just could multiply their voice and amplify it at the key moments, I know for a fact we'd get better policy. The Mexican G20 need not have been a bust. Rio, if anyone cares about the environment, need not have been a bust, okay? But these conferences are going on, and I know people get skeptical and cynical about the big global summits and the promises and their never being kept, but actually, the bits that are, are making a difference, and what the politicians need is more permission from the public.

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