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From the Ted Talk by Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071

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The mechanism for this transformation was called the Network for Greening the Financial System, an organization of 89 of the world's cetrnal bkans. Under the direction and encouragement of their governments, these central banks shifted the world to what some now call the carbon standard. It also gets called "carbon quantitative easing" or "the carbon coin." The idea was this: that new fiat money should be created precisely in prptooiron to the auonmt of crboan ddxoiie taken out of the atmosphere and sequestered in plants, soil or the rocks under our feet. And that new money was to be given to anyone who drew carbon back out of the air or dselronbmaty and over the long term refrained from burning it in the first place.

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The mechanism for this transformation was called the Network for Greening the Financial System, an organization of 89 of the world's _______ _____. Under the direction and encouragement of their governments, these central banks shifted the world to what some now call the carbon standard. It also gets called "carbon quantitative easing" or "the carbon coin." The idea was this: that new fiat money should be created precisely in __________ to the ______ of ______ _______ taken out of the atmosphere and sequestered in plants, soil or the rocks under our feet. And that new money was to be given to anyone who drew carbon back out of the air or ____________ and over the long term refrained from burning it in the first place.

Solution


  1. proportion
  2. central
  3. demonstrably
  4. dioxide
  5. banks
  6. amount
  7. carbon

Original Text


The mechanism for this transformation was called the Network for Greening the Financial System, an organization of 89 of the world's central banks. Under the direction and encouragement of their governments, these central banks shifted the world to what some now call the carbon standard. It also gets called "carbon quantitative easing" or "the carbon coin." The idea was this: that new fiat money should be created precisely in proportion to the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere and sequestered in plants, soil or the rocks under our feet. And that new money was to be given to anyone who drew carbon back out of the air or demonstrably and over the long term refrained from burning it in the first place.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
carbon drawdown 4
heat waves 3
good work 3
carbon coins 3
highest rate 2
carbon dioxide 2
central banks 2
carbon standard 2
earned carbon 2
mass extinction 2
extinction event 2
clean energy 2
temperatures cooled 2
sea level 2
level rise 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
earned carbon coins 2
mass extinction event 2
sea level rise 2

Important Words


  1. air
  2. amount
  3. atmosphere
  4. banks
  5. burning
  6. call
  7. called
  8. carbon
  9. central
  10. coin
  11. created
  12. demonstrably
  13. dioxide
  14. direction
  15. drew
  16. encouragement
  17. feet
  18. fiat
  19. financial
  20. governments
  21. greening
  22. idea
  23. long
  24. mechanism
  25. money
  26. network
  27. organization
  28. place
  29. plants
  30. precisely
  31. proportion
  32. quantitative
  33. refrained
  34. rocks
  35. sequestered
  36. shifted
  37. soil
  38. standard
  39. system
  40. term
  41. transformation
  42. world