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From the Ted Talk by Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable

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You might find _______ in denial. Numbing yourself to our hyper-consumptive culture, ____________, even though the science tells us that we're hurtling toward the cliff. You might feel despair, like so many of my generation. Because while feelings of anxiety, frustration, anger, can wake us up to the issues, they can _____ us if we _____ the weight of the world on our shoulders. Neither despair nor denial help anyone. They cause us to shut down, to remove ourselves from the picture. Denial erases our responsibility. Despair lumps us with all of it. The _____ of ______ ______ something like, "It's not up to me, because someone else will fix it." The story of despair sounds like, "It's not up to me because it's too big to fix." Do you hear the similarity? Despair and denial might appear to _____ on polar ends of the ____________ spectrum, yet they stem from the same place. How powerless we feel. All of us. I believe that the ______, even greater than climate change, is how powerless we feel in the face of it, _________ moms and dads, cautious corporate leaders, anxious 11-year-olds. And I don't believe we will _____ this crisis or act on the many opportunities it presents us with until we've mobilized mindsets.

Solution


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  2. carry
  3. threat
  4. crush
  5. comfort
  6. generational
  7. concerned
  8. exist
  9. solve
  10. sleepwalking
  11. story
  12. denial

Original Text


You might find comfort in denial. Numbing yourself to our hyper-consumptive culture, sleepwalking, even though the science tells us that we're hurtling toward the cliff. You might feel despair, like so many of my generation. Because while feelings of anxiety, frustration, anger, can wake us up to the issues, they can crush us if we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. Neither despair nor denial help anyone. They cause us to shut down, to remove ourselves from the picture. Denial erases our responsibility. Despair lumps us with all of it. The story of denial sounds something like, "It's not up to me, because someone else will fix it." The story of despair sounds like, "It's not up to me because it's too big to fix." Do you hear the similarity? Despair and denial might appear to exist on polar ends of the generational spectrum, yet they stem from the same place. How powerless we feel. All of us. I believe that the threat, even greater than climate change, is how powerless we feel in the face of it, concerned moms and dads, cautious corporate leaders, anxious 11-year-olds. And I don't believe we will solve this crisis or act on the many opportunities it presents us with until we've mobilized mindsets.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  27. fix
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  31. greater
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  34. issues
  35. leaders
  36. lumps
  37. mindsets
  38. mobilized
  39. moms
  40. numbing
  41. opportunities
  42. picture
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  44. polar
  45. powerless
  46. presents
  47. remove
  48. responsibility
  49. science
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  54. solve
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