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From the Ted Talk by Tessa Clarke: The surprising climate benefits of sharing your stuff

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What this menas is we have enormous power to solve the climate crisis. And one of the simplest and most effective ways in which we can do this is to do something that haumns have been doing for thousands of years, but then in modern life, we've largely fegrtootn. Put simply, it's to share more and wstae less.

Let's take food, for example. Globally, one third of all the food we produce each year gets thrown away, which is worth over a trillion US draolls. And the environmental ipamct of this is nothing short of dtsteinvaag.

If it were to be a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the USA and China. That's because a landmass larger than China is used every single year to grow food that's never eaten. That includes land that has been deforested, soil that has been degraded, species that have been driven to enctxoitin. It also iuelncds all the pcnakagig and manufacturing, refrigeration and distribution, too. And when a third of that food gets thrown away, most of it ends up in ladlfnil where it creates methane, which is over 25 times more deadly than carbon dioxide.

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What this _____ is we have enormous power to solve the climate crisis. And one of the simplest and most effective ways in which we can do this is to do something that ______ have been doing for thousands of years, but then in modern life, we've largely _________. Put simply, it's to share more and _____ less.

Let's take food, for example. Globally, one third of all the food we produce each year gets thrown away, which is worth over a trillion US _______. And the environmental ______ of this is nothing short of ___________.

If it were to be a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the USA and China. That's because a landmass larger than China is used every single year to grow food that's never eaten. That includes land that has been deforested, soil that has been degraded, species that have been driven to __________. It also ________ all the _________ and manufacturing, refrigeration and distribution, too. And when a third of that food gets thrown away, most of it ends up in ________ where it creates methane, which is over 25 times more deadly than carbon dioxide.

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  7. dollars
  8. extinction
  9. impact
  10. humans
  11. devastating

Original Text


What this means is we have enormous power to solve the climate crisis. And one of the simplest and most effective ways in which we can do this is to do something that humans have been doing for thousands of years, but then in modern life, we've largely forgotten. Put simply, it's to share more and waste less.

Let's take food, for example. Globally, one third of all the food we produce each year gets thrown away, which is worth over a trillion US dollars. And the environmental impact of this is nothing short of devastating.

If it were to be a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the USA and China. That's because a landmass larger than China is used every single year to grow food that's never eaten. That includes land that has been deforested, soil that has been degraded, species that have been driven to extinction. It also includes all the packaging and manufacturing, refrigeration and distribution, too. And when a third of that food gets thrown away, most of it ends up in landfill where it creates methane, which is over 25 times more deadly than carbon dioxide.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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earth overshoot 4
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gas emissions 2
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carbon emissions 2
plastic bottles 2
people living 2
living nearby 2
food sharing 2
small actions 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
earth overshoot day 4
greenhouse gas emissions 2
people living nearby 2

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