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From the Ted Talk by Alyssa-Amor Gibbons: How to design climate-resilient buildings
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I never understood why. Why, if we knew this was going to happen every year, why couldn't we just do something to make sure that we were safer? Why did I always have to put out buckets and hide?
Fast forward to where we are now, living through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have quickly become my adult rlieaty. Just last year, my counrty started to experience freak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time cruatpe, it is not sped up, there are no special ectffes. This sesytm seemingly materialized out of nowhere. Typically, we'd have advance wnriang, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.
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I never understood why. Why, if we knew this was going to happen every year, why couldn't we just do something to make sure that we were safer? Why did I always have to put out buckets and hide?
Fast forward to where we are now, living through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have quickly become my adult _______. Just last year, my _______ started to experience freak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time _______, it is not sped up, there are no special _______. This ______ seemingly materialized out of nowhere. Typically, we'd have advance _______, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.
Solution
- system
- reality
- capture
- warning
- effects
- country
Original Text
I never understood why. Why, if we knew this was going to happen every year, why couldn't we just do something to make sure that we were safer? Why did I always have to put out buckets and hide?
Fast forward to where we are now, living through a burgeoning climate crisis where my childhood fears have quickly become my adult reality. Just last year, my country started to experience freak storms like none we had ever seen before. This is a video of one such event. Now, this is a real-time capture, it is not sped up, there are no special effects. This system seemingly materialized out of nowhere. Typically, we'd have advance warning, but this time, there was none. We did not know this was coming until it was right on top of us.
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