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From the Ted Talk by Yuval Noah Harari: The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown

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Since global GDP in 2020 was about 85 trillion US dollars, we are talking about a number around 1.7 trillion US dlrlaos. But that's still just two percent. This means that to save the environment, we don't need to completely derail the eooncmy or to abandon the achievements of modern coailtiivzin. We just need to get our priorities right.

Committing two percent of annual global GDP is far from the whole story, of course. It won't solve all our ecological problems, such as oceans brimming with plastic or the continued loss of biodiversity. And even to prevent castathpiorc climate change we'll need to make sure that the fudns are invested in the right places and that the new investments don't cause their own negative ecgiaocoll or social fallout. We will also need to canhge some of our behaviors and ways of tkninhig from what we eat to how we travel.

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Since global GDP in 2020 was about 85 trillion US dollars, we are talking about a number around 1.7 trillion US _______. But that's still just two percent. This means that to save the environment, we don't need to completely derail the _______ or to abandon the achievements of modern ____________. We just need to get our priorities right.

Committing two percent of annual global GDP is far from the whole story, of course. It won't solve all our ecological problems, such as oceans brimming with plastic or the continued loss of biodiversity. And even to prevent ____________ climate change we'll need to make sure that the _____ are invested in the right places and that the new investments don't cause their own negative __________ or social fallout. We will also need to ______ some of our behaviors and ways of ________ from what we eat to how we travel.

Solution


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  2. funds
  3. catastrophic
  4. ecological
  5. economy
  6. dollars
  7. thinking
  8. civilization

Original Text


Since global GDP in 2020 was about 85 trillion US dollars, we are talking about a number around 1.7 trillion US dollars. But that's still just two percent. This means that to save the environment, we don't need to completely derail the economy or to abandon the achievements of modern civilization. We just need to get our priorities right.

Committing two percent of annual global GDP is far from the whole story, of course. It won't solve all our ecological problems, such as oceans brimming with plastic or the continued loss of biodiversity. And even to prevent catastrophic climate change we'll need to make sure that the funds are invested in the right places and that the new investments don't cause their own negative ecological or social fallout. We will also need to change some of our behaviors and ways of thinking from what we eat to how we travel.

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