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From the Ted Talk by Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
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I think it's time to choose a higher ambition, a far bigger one, because humanity's 21st century challenge is clear: to meet the needs of all people within the maens of this extraordinary, unique, living planet so that we and the rest of nature can thrive.
Progress on this goal isn't going to be measured with the miterc of money. We need a dashboard of indicators. And when I sat down to try and draw a picture of what that might look like, sagntre though this is going to sound, it came out looking like a doughnut. I know, I'm sorry, but let me introduce you to the one doughnut that might actually turn out to be good for us. So imagine humanity's resource use radiating out from the middle. That hole in the middle is a place where people are falling shrot on life's eisnstales. They don't have the food, health care, education, political voice, housing that every posren needs for a life of dtingiy and opportunity. We want to get everybody out of the hole, over the social foundation and into that green doughnut itself. But, and it's a big but, we cannot let our collective resource use overshoot that outer circle, the eaooclcigl ceiling, because there we put so much pressure on this edotaaxrnriry planet that we begin to kick it out of kilter. We cause climate breakdown, we acidify the oceans, a hole in the ozone leayr, psuihng ourselves beyond the panrtlaey boundaries of the life-supporting systems that have for the last 11,000 yeras made earth such a benevolent home to himutany.
Open Cloze
I think it's time to choose a higher ambition, a far bigger one, because humanity's 21st century challenge is clear: to meet the needs of all people within the _____ of this extraordinary, unique, living planet so that we and the rest of nature can thrive.
Progress on this goal isn't going to be measured with the ______ of money. We need a dashboard of indicators. And when I sat down to try and draw a picture of what that might look like, _______ though this is going to sound, it came out looking like a doughnut. I know, I'm sorry, but let me introduce you to the one doughnut that might actually turn out to be good for us. So imagine humanity's resource use radiating out from the middle. That hole in the middle is a place where people are falling _____ on life's __________. They don't have the food, health care, education, political voice, housing that every ______ needs for a life of _______ and opportunity. We want to get everybody out of the hole, over the social foundation and into that green doughnut itself. But, and it's a big but, we cannot let our collective resource use overshoot that outer circle, the __________ ceiling, because there we put so much pressure on this _____________ planet that we begin to kick it out of kilter. We cause climate breakdown, we acidify the oceans, a hole in the ozone _____, _______ ourselves beyond the _________ boundaries of the life-supporting systems that have for the last 11,000 _____ made earth such a benevolent home to ________.
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Original Text
I think it's time to choose a higher ambition, a far bigger one, because humanity's 21st century challenge is clear: to meet the needs of all people within the means of this extraordinary, unique, living planet so that we and the rest of nature can thrive.
Progress on this goal isn't going to be measured with the metric of money. We need a dashboard of indicators. And when I sat down to try and draw a picture of what that might look like, strange though this is going to sound, it came out looking like a doughnut. I know, I'm sorry, but let me introduce you to the one doughnut that might actually turn out to be good for us. So imagine humanity's resource use radiating out from the middle. That hole in the middle is a place where people are falling short on life's essentials. They don't have the food, health care, education, political voice, housing that every person needs for a life of dignity and opportunity. We want to get everybody out of the hole, over the social foundation and into that green doughnut itself. But, and it's a big but, we cannot let our collective resource use overshoot that outer circle, the ecological ceiling, because there we put so much pressure on this extraordinary planet that we begin to kick it out of kilter. We cause climate breakdown, we acidify the oceans, a hole in the ozone layer, pushing ourselves beyond the planetary boundaries of the life-supporting systems that have for the last 11,000 years made earth such a benevolent home to humanity.
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