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From the Ted Talk by Payton M. Wilkins: Unions for climate action!

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Fossil fuels have got to go. We must put an end to these climate-destructive, loosely regulated, dirty businesses that are destroying the etrah. We've done the math, we have the data, and we know that these dirty businesses are making it increasingly more ulthbaibannie on this planet. But when those jobs go away, there'll be green jobs, right? Again, we've run the numbers, we have the data and we know that the more we invest in a green economy, the more jobs there’ll be: [more] healthier, higher-paying jobs in the future than there are today.

But here's the thing. People eat baerd, not data. And when a cotoiroparn shuts down a coal mine, as happy as some of us may be about cleaner air, the riatley is that people lose paychecks, they lose pnsoenis, they lose jobs that they thought were going to be there for their children. Schools close, samll besnuseiss shutter, and homes are lost. Poverty sets in. There are no geern jobs waiting for those folks. sttuinhg down a coal mine, a coal refinery or most polluting felitiaics can devastate a community and a family.

Open Cloze


Fossil fuels have got to go. We must put an end to these climate-destructive, loosely regulated, dirty businesses that are destroying the _____. We've done the math, we have the data, and we know that these dirty businesses are making it increasingly more _____________ on this planet. But when those jobs go away, there'll be green jobs, right? Again, we've run the numbers, we have the data and we know that the more we invest in a green economy, the more jobs there’ll be: [more] healthier, higher-paying jobs in the future than there are today.

But here's the thing. People eat _____, not data. And when a ___________ shuts down a coal mine, as happy as some of us may be about cleaner air, the _______ is that people lose paychecks, they lose ________, they lose jobs that they thought were going to be there for their children. Schools close, _____ __________ shutter, and homes are lost. Poverty sets in. There are no _____ jobs waiting for those folks. ________ down a coal mine, a coal refinery or most polluting __________ can devastate a community and a family.

Solution


  1. reality
  2. shutting
  3. green
  4. earth
  5. bread
  6. uninhabitable
  7. pensions
  8. small
  9. corporation
  10. facilities
  11. businesses

Original Text


Fossil fuels have got to go. We must put an end to these climate-destructive, loosely regulated, dirty businesses that are destroying the Earth. We've done the math, we have the data, and we know that these dirty businesses are making it increasingly more uninhabitable on this planet. But when those jobs go away, there'll be green jobs, right? Again, we've run the numbers, we have the data and we know that the more we invest in a green economy, the more jobs there’ll be: [more] healthier, higher-paying jobs in the future than there are today.

But here's the thing. People eat bread, not data. And when a corporation shuts down a coal mine, as happy as some of us may be about cleaner air, the reality is that people lose paychecks, they lose pensions, they lose jobs that they thought were going to be there for their children. Schools close, small businesses shutter, and homes are lost. Poverty sets in. There are no green jobs waiting for those folks. Shutting down a coal mine, a coal refinery or most polluting facilities can devastate a community and a family.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
environmental justice 5
coal miners 4
fossil fuels 2
dirty businesses 2
green jobs 2
justice organization 2
annual convention 2
climate change 2
south africa 2
wind energy 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
environmental justice organization 2

Important Words


  1. air
  2. bread
  3. businesses
  4. children
  5. cleaner
  6. close
  7. coal
  8. community
  9. corporation
  10. data
  11. destroying
  12. devastate
  13. dirty
  14. earth
  15. eat
  16. economy
  17. facilities
  18. family
  19. folks
  20. fossil
  21. fuels
  22. future
  23. green
  24. happy
  25. healthier
  26. homes
  27. increasingly
  28. invest
  29. jobs
  30. loosely
  31. lose
  32. lost
  33. making
  34. math
  35. numbers
  36. paychecks
  37. pensions
  38. people
  39. planet
  40. polluting
  41. poverty
  42. put
  43. reality
  44. refinery
  45. regulated
  46. run
  47. schools
  48. sets
  49. shuts
  50. shutter
  51. shutting
  52. small
  53. thought
  54. today
  55. uninhabitable
  56. waiting