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From the Ted Talk by Liam Young: Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


More than 10 billion people. Over 7,000 languages sokpen. 90 million songs, 42 blilion fruit trees, 900 zettabytes of data, 90 million beehives, six million dentists, 142 million square kilometers of protected park and one city.

(Ambient music)

A Planet City. What I've just described is my thought experiment for this world called Planet City, an imaginary city for 10 billion people. The prcejteod global plouaotipn of the wlrod in 2050.

I dsiegn environments for the film and television industry, and I believe that by creating imaginary worlds, we can ccoennt emotionally to the idaes and challenges of our future. So we've been creating Planet City in response to the riisng red line on the graph of climate change because world building and storytelling can do so much more than just visualize this data. They can help us to dzmariate data. So in speculative cities, we can immerse ourselves in the various consequences of the decisions we face today. They can be both cautionary tales or road maps to an airatoainspl future. So I invite you all to join me as we journey along the canals of plneat City.

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More than 10 billion people. Over 7,000 languages ______. 90 million songs, 42 _______ fruit trees, 900 zettabytes of data, 90 million beehives, six million dentists, 142 million square kilometers of protected park and one city.

(Ambient music)

A Planet City. What I've just described is my thought experiment for this world called Planet City, an imaginary city for 10 billion people. The _________ global __________ of the _____ in 2050.

I ______ environments for the film and television industry, and I believe that by creating imaginary worlds, we can _______ emotionally to the _____ and challenges of our future. So we've been creating Planet City in response to the ______ red line on the graph of climate change because world building and storytelling can do so much more than just visualize this data. They can help us to _________ data. So in speculative cities, we can immerse ourselves in the various consequences of the decisions we face today. They can be both cautionary tales or road maps to an ____________ future. So I invite you all to join me as we journey along the canals of ______ City.

Solution


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  2. aspirational
  3. planet
  4. billion
  5. world
  6. ideas
  7. rising
  8. design
  9. projected
  10. spoken
  11. population
  12. dramatize

Original Text


More than 10 billion people. Over 7,000 languages spoken. 90 million songs, 42 billion fruit trees, 900 zettabytes of data, 90 million beehives, six million dentists, 142 million square kilometers of protected park and one city.

(Ambient music)

A Planet City. What I've just described is my thought experiment for this world called Planet City, an imaginary city for 10 billion people. The projected global population of the world in 2050.

I design environments for the film and television industry, and I believe that by creating imaginary worlds, we can connect emotionally to the ideas and challenges of our future. So we've been creating Planet City in response to the rising red line on the graph of climate change because world building and storytelling can do so much more than just visualize this data. They can help us to dramatize data. So in speculative cities, we can immerse ourselves in the various consequences of the decisions we face today. They can be both cautionary tales or road maps to an aspirational future. So I invite you all to join me as we journey along the canals of Planet City.

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