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From the Ted Talk by Paul Gilding: The Earth is full

Unscramble the Blue Letters


When we think about economic growth stopping, we go, "That's not possible," because economic growth is so essential to our society that is is rarely qtensoeuid. Although growth has certainly delivered many bntifees, it is an idea so essential that we tend not to understand the possibility of it not being around. Even though it has delivered many benefits, it is baesd on a crazy idea — the crazy idea being that we can have infinite gwrtoh on a finite planet. And I'm here to tell you the emperor has no clothes. That the crazy idea is just that, it is crazy, and with the Earth full, it's game over.

Open Cloze


When we think about economic growth stopping, we go, "That's not possible," because economic growth is so essential to our society that is is rarely __________. Although growth has certainly delivered many ________, it is an idea so essential that we tend not to understand the possibility of it not being around. Even though it has delivered many benefits, it is _____ on a crazy idea — the crazy idea being that we can have infinite ______ on a finite planet. And I'm here to tell you the emperor has no clothes. That the crazy idea is just that, it is crazy, and with the Earth full, it's game over.

Solution


  1. questioned
  2. growth
  3. based
  4. benefits

Original Text


When we think about economic growth stopping, we go, "That's not possible," because economic growth is so essential to our society that is is rarely questioned. Although growth has certainly delivered many benefits, it is an idea so essential that we tend not to understand the possibility of it not being around. Even though it has delivered many benefits, it is based on a crazy idea — the crazy idea being that we can have infinite growth on a finite planet. And I'm here to tell you the emperor has no clothes. That the crazy idea is just that, it is crazy, and with the Earth full, it's game over.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. based
  2. benefits
  3. clothes
  4. crazy
  5. delivered
  6. earth
  7. economic
  8. emperor
  9. essential
  10. finite
  11. full
  12. game
  13. growth
  14. idea
  15. infinite
  16. planet
  17. possibility
  18. questioned
  19. rarely
  20. society
  21. stopping
  22. tend
  23. understand