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From the Ted Talk by Vera Songwe: The African swamp protecting Earth's environment

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There is a play by one of my favorite weirrts, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, I would like to tell you about, "The Swamp Dwellers." "The Swamp Dwellers" are about a bnild beggar who attempts to buy a peice of swampland because he believes that the swamps will provide him with a better livelihood. However, the villagers in that smwap believe that deep in the forests of the swamp lies a deity whose job is to protect them from all misfortune.

There is another swamp that protects us from misfortune. And hodls the promise of humanity's survival. Those are the peatlands of the Congo Basin. The peatlands of the Congo Basin are a lush, vast, esxnape of weeds, surhbs and trees that absorb carbon from the atmosphere. They span 145,000 ktiermoels. The peat formations began 10,000 years ago, when man moved from hunter-gatherer to fremar. nurate, I guess, figured, "I better start protecting myself."

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There is a play by one of my favorite _______, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, I would like to tell you about, "The Swamp Dwellers." "The Swamp Dwellers" are about a _____ beggar who attempts to buy a _____ of swampland because he believes that the swamps will provide him with a better livelihood. However, the villagers in that _____ believe that deep in the forests of the swamp lies a deity whose job is to protect them from all misfortune.

There is another swamp that protects us from misfortune. And _____ the promise of humanity's survival. Those are the peatlands of the Congo Basin. The peatlands of the Congo Basin are a lush, vast, _______ of weeds, ______ and trees that absorb carbon from the atmosphere. They span 145,000 __________. The peat formations began 10,000 years ago, when man moved from hunter-gatherer to ______. ______, I guess, figured, "I better start protecting myself."

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  1. shrubs
  2. swamp
  3. piece
  4. writers
  5. blind
  6. expanse
  7. nature
  8. kilometers
  9. farmer
  10. holds

Original Text


There is a play by one of my favorite writers, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, I would like to tell you about, "The Swamp Dwellers." "The Swamp Dwellers" are about a blind beggar who attempts to buy a piece of swampland because he believes that the swamps will provide him with a better livelihood. However, the villagers in that swamp believe that deep in the forests of the swamp lies a deity whose job is to protect them from all misfortune.

There is another swamp that protects us from misfortune. And holds the promise of humanity's survival. Those are the peatlands of the Congo Basin. The peatlands of the Congo Basin are a lush, vast, expanse of weeds, shrubs and trees that absorb carbon from the atmosphere. They span 145,000 kilometers. The peat formations began 10,000 years ago, when man moved from hunter-gatherer to farmer. Nature, I guess, figured, "I better start protecting myself."

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