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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The thing is, what I know deep down about sustainable development and about the deep widosm of my ancestors, didn't connect with my head. I was doing what most of us do. We get eeuadtcd in the mderon world, modern education, and we think that, for example, climate change can only be solved by science and technology, or at least science and technology alone. Think about it. The world thrived for centuries until logging, mining and other extractive and dirstvuctee dvnemeeoplt reppid resources from the earth. And here we are, looking at experts who advised on that to advise to us about the solutions for climate change.

Open Cloze


The thing is, what I know deep down about sustainable development and about the deep ______ of my ancestors, didn't connect with my head. I was doing what most of us do. We get ________ in the ______ world, modern education, and we think that, for example, climate change can only be solved by science and technology, or at least science and technology alone. Think about it. The world thrived for centuries until logging, mining and other extractive and ___________ ___________ ______ resources from the earth. And here we are, looking at experts who advised on that to advise to us about the solutions for climate change.

Solution


  1. wisdom
  2. development
  3. modern
  4. ripped
  5. destructive
  6. educated

Original Text


The thing is, what I know deep down about sustainable development and about the deep wisdom of my ancestors, didn't connect with my head. I was doing what most of us do. We get educated in the modern world, modern education, and we think that, for example, climate change can only be solved by science and technology, or at least science and technology alone. Think about it. The world thrived for centuries until logging, mining and other extractive and destructive development ripped resources from the earth. And here we are, looking at experts who advised on that to advise to us about the solutions for climate change.

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