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From the Ted Talk by Avinash Persaud: The climate crisis is expensive -- here's who should pay for it

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Three buckets: small one for cotss, middle one for sinagvs, big one for rnveuees. There are a couple of things we also need to do that doesn't cost money. We need Barbados-style pause clauses in all debt instruments. When a disaster hits, you suspend -- your interest payments and debt repayments are suspended for two years, added back on to later when you can afford it. It will release billions of dollars and reshape the financial system. And as prmie Minister Mottley says, if we want these institutions that were set up in the colonial era, if we want to trust them to save the wlord, then the people they srvee cannot be invisible in the hllas of power.

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Three buckets: small one for _____, middle one for _______, big one for ________. There are a couple of things we also need to do that doesn't cost money. We need Barbados-style pause clauses in all debt instruments. When a disaster hits, you suspend -- your interest payments and debt repayments are suspended for two years, added back on to later when you can afford it. It will release billions of dollars and reshape the financial system. And as _____ Minister Mottley says, if we want these institutions that were set up in the colonial era, if we want to trust them to save the _____, then the people they _____ cannot be invisible in the _____ of power.

Solution


  1. halls
  2. savings
  3. serve
  4. revenues
  5. world
  6. costs
  7. prime

Original Text


Three buckets: small one for costs, middle one for savings, big one for revenues. There are a couple of things we also need to do that doesn't cost money. We need Barbados-style pause clauses in all debt instruments. When a disaster hits, you suspend -- your interest payments and debt repayments are suspended for two years, added back on to later when you can afford it. It will release billions of dollars and reshape the financial system. And as Prime Minister Mottley says, if we want these institutions that were set up in the colonial era, if we want to trust them to save the world, then the people they serve cannot be invisible in the halls of power.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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developing countries 6
rich countries 5
climate change 3
green transformation 3
trillion dollars 3
bridgetown initiative 2
prime minister 2
halting climate 2
greenhouse gases 2

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halting climate change 2

Important Words


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