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From the Ted Talk by Jackie Savitz: Save the oceans, feed the world!

Unscramble the Blue Letters


You may be wondering why a marine biologist from Oceana would come here today to talk to you about world hunger. I'm here tadoy because saving the oencas is more than an ecological desire. It's more than a thing we're doing because we want to create jobs for fishermen or preserve fishermen's jobs. It's more than an economic pursuit. Saving the oceans can feed the world. Let me show you how.

As you know, there are already more than a billion hgnruy people on this pnalet. We're expecting that problem to get wsore as world population grows to nine blilion or 10 billion by midcentury, and we can expect to have greater prssruee on our food resources. And this is a big concern, especially considering where we are now. Now we know that our arable land per capita is already on the decline in both developed and developing countries. We know that we're headed for cmiatle change, which is going to change rainfall patterns, making some areas drier, as you can see in onrgae, and others wetter, in blue, causing dthguors in our bksaaberdtes, in places like the Midwest and Central Europe, and floods in others. It's going to make it harder for the land to help us solve the hunger problem. And that's why the oceans need to be their most anunadbt, so that the oceans can provide us as much food as possible.

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You may be wondering why a marine biologist from Oceana would come here today to talk to you about world hunger. I'm here _____ because saving the ______ is more than an ecological desire. It's more than a thing we're doing because we want to create jobs for fishermen or preserve fishermen's jobs. It's more than an economic pursuit. Saving the oceans can feed the world. Let me show you how.

As you know, there are already more than a billion ______ people on this ______. We're expecting that problem to get _____ as world population grows to nine _______ or 10 billion by midcentury, and we can expect to have greater ________ on our food resources. And this is a big concern, especially considering where we are now. Now we know that our arable land per capita is already on the decline in both developed and developing countries. We know that we're headed for _______ change, which is going to change rainfall patterns, making some areas drier, as you can see in ______, and others wetter, in blue, causing ________ in our ____________, in places like the Midwest and Central Europe, and floods in others. It's going to make it harder for the land to help us solve the hunger problem. And that's why the oceans need to be their most ________, so that the oceans can provide us as much food as possible.

Solution


  1. pressure
  2. oceans
  3. planet
  4. billion
  5. hungry
  6. breadbaskets
  7. today
  8. worse
  9. abundant
  10. climate
  11. droughts
  12. orange

Original Text


You may be wondering why a marine biologist from Oceana would come here today to talk to you about world hunger. I'm here today because saving the oceans is more than an ecological desire. It's more than a thing we're doing because we want to create jobs for fishermen or preserve fishermen's jobs. It's more than an economic pursuit. Saving the oceans can feed the world. Let me show you how.

As you know, there are already more than a billion hungry people on this planet. We're expecting that problem to get worse as world population grows to nine billion or 10 billion by midcentury, and we can expect to have greater pressure on our food resources. And this is a big concern, especially considering where we are now. Now we know that our arable land per capita is already on the decline in both developed and developing countries. We know that we're headed for climate change, which is going to change rainfall patterns, making some areas drier, as you can see in orange, and others wetter, in blue, causing droughts in our breadbaskets, in places like the Midwest and Central Europe, and floods in others. It's going to make it harder for the land to help us solve the hunger problem. And that's why the oceans need to be their most abundant, so that the oceans can provide us as much food as possible.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
coastal areas 5
fisheries management 4
peak fish 3
feed people 3
european union 3
illegal fishing 3
coastal countries 2
fish catch 2
sustainable fisheries 2
world fish 2
million people 2
fish meal 2
fresh water 2
carbon footprint 2
catch fish 2
safe seafood 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
sustainable fisheries management 2

Important Words


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  47. patterns
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