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From the Ted Talk by Prince William: This decade calls for Earthshots to repair our planet

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While these oaks have been growing, around 35 billion poplee have lived their lives on our planet. That's 35 billion lifetimes' worth of hope, love, fear and dreams. In that time, humankind has invented air travel, vaccines and computers. We've explored every part of the globe, sequenced the human goenme and even escaped Earth's atmosphere. Our seped of innovation has been iibenlcrde, but so, too, has the acceleration of our impact.

Over my grandmother's lifetime, the last 90 yraes or so, our impacts accelerated so fast that our climate, oaencs, air, nutare and all that depends on them are in peril. This oak has stood here for centuries, but never has it faced a decade like this.

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While these oaks have been growing, around 35 billion ______ have lived their lives on our planet. That's 35 billion lifetimes' worth of hope, love, fear and dreams. In that time, humankind has invented air travel, vaccines and computers. We've explored every part of the globe, sequenced the human ______ and even escaped Earth's atmosphere. Our _____ of innovation has been __________, but so, too, has the acceleration of our impact.

Over my grandmother's lifetime, the last 90 _____ or so, our impacts accelerated so fast that our climate, ______, air, ______ and all that depends on them are in peril. This oak has stood here for centuries, but never has it faced a decade like this.

Solution


  1. genome
  2. incredible
  3. oceans
  4. speed
  5. people
  6. years
  7. nature

Original Text


While these oaks have been growing, around 35 billion people have lived their lives on our planet. That's 35 billion lifetimes' worth of hope, love, fear and dreams. In that time, humankind has invented air travel, vaccines and computers. We've explored every part of the globe, sequenced the human genome and even escaped Earth's atmosphere. Our speed of innovation has been incredible, but so, too, has the acceleration of our impact.

Over my grandmother's lifetime, the last 90 years or so, our impacts accelerated so fast that our climate, oceans, air, nature and all that depends on them are in peril. This oak has stood here for centuries, but never has it faced a decade like this.

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