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From the Ted Talk by Angela Mahecha Adrar: The people who caused the climate crisis aren't the ones who will fix it

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I know that from experience, because like so many other low-income families saihrceng for livelihoods, when my mother, brother and I emigrated from Colombia, we made our homes alongside landfills, incinerators, oil refineries, power plants and waste-treatment plants. In nhdeboohgiros that serve as the sacrifice znoes to fuel the economy of this nitoan and, oftentimes, the world. In the '70s, in Southwest dtiroet, we lived in the shadow of the Marathon oil refinery. And in the '80s, in Queens, New York, we played handball in vacant ctaonmietand lots, unknowingly breathing in drelgosunay high levels of sulfur dioxide from power plants nearby.

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I know that from experience, because like so many other low-income families _________ for livelihoods, when my mother, brother and I emigrated from Colombia, we made our homes alongside landfills, incinerators, oil refineries, power plants and waste-treatment plants. In _____________ that serve as the sacrifice _____ to fuel the economy of this ______ and, oftentimes, the world. In the '70s, in Southwest _______, we lived in the shadow of the Marathon oil refinery. And in the '80s, in Queens, New York, we played handball in vacant ____________ lots, unknowingly breathing in ___________ high levels of sulfur dioxide from power plants nearby.

Solution


  1. searching
  2. neighborhoods
  3. zones
  4. dangerously
  5. detroit
  6. contaminated
  7. nation

Original Text


I know that from experience, because like so many other low-income families searching for livelihoods, when my mother, brother and I emigrated from Colombia, we made our homes alongside landfills, incinerators, oil refineries, power plants and waste-treatment plants. In neighborhoods that serve as the sacrifice zones to fuel the economy of this nation and, oftentimes, the world. In the '70s, in Southwest Detroit, we lived in the shadow of the Marathon oil refinery. And in the '80s, in Queens, New York, we played handball in vacant contaminated lots, unknowingly breathing in dangerously high levels of sulfur dioxide from power plants nearby.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
climate justice 4
climate crisis 4
sulfur dioxide 3
environmental crisis 2
government elites 2
rising sea 2
desperate times 2
power plants 2
sacrifice zones 2
front lines 2
climate change 2
effective solutions 2
racial justice 2
frontline communities 2
transforming communities 2
big business 2


Important Words


  1. breathing
  2. brother
  3. colombia
  4. contaminated
  5. dangerously
  6. detroit
  7. dioxide
  8. economy
  9. emigrated
  10. experience
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  16. incinerators
  17. landfills
  18. levels
  19. lived
  20. livelihoods
  21. lots
  22. marathon
  23. mother
  24. nation
  25. nearby
  26. neighborhoods
  27. oftentimes
  28. oil
  29. plants
  30. played
  31. power
  32. queens
  33. refineries
  34. refinery
  35. sacrifice
  36. searching
  37. serve
  38. shadow
  39. southwest
  40. sulfur
  41. unknowingly
  42. vacant
  43. world
  44. york
  45. zones