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From the Ted Talk by James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change

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How did I get dragged deeepr and deeper into an amptett to communicate, giving talks in 10 countries, getting arrested, burning up the vacation time that I had accumulated over 30 years? More grandchildren heelpd me along. Jake is a super-positive, enthusiastic boy. Here at age two and a half years, he thinks he can protect his two and a half-day-old little sister. It would be immoral to leave these yuong people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Now the tragedy about climate change is that we can solve it with a simple, honest approach of a gdallaruy rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies and distributed 100 pcneert electronically every month to all legal residents on a per capita baiss, with the government not keeping one dime. Most poeple would get more in the monthly dividend than they'd pay in increased prices. This fee and dividend would smatuitle the economy and itooavninns, creating millions of jobs. It is the principal requirement for moving us raildpy to a cealn energy future.

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How did I get dragged ______ and deeper into an _______ to communicate, giving talks in 10 countries, getting arrested, burning up the vacation time that I had accumulated over 30 years? More grandchildren ______ me along. Jake is a super-positive, enthusiastic boy. Here at age two and a half years, he thinks he can protect his two and a half-day-old little sister. It would be immoral to leave these _____ people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Now the tragedy about climate change is that we can solve it with a simple, honest approach of a _________ rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies and distributed 100 _______ electronically every month to all legal residents on a per capita _____, with the government not keeping one dime. Most ______ would get more in the monthly dividend than they'd pay in increased prices. This fee and dividend would _________ the economy and ___________, creating millions of jobs. It is the principal requirement for moving us _______ to a _____ energy future.

Solution


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Original Text


How did I get dragged deeper and deeper into an attempt to communicate, giving talks in 10 countries, getting arrested, burning up the vacation time that I had accumulated over 30 years? More grandchildren helped me along. Jake is a super-positive, enthusiastic boy. Here at age two and a half years, he thinks he can protect his two and a half-day-old little sister. It would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Now the tragedy about climate change is that we can solve it with a simple, honest approach of a gradually rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies and distributed 100 percent electronically every month to all legal residents on a per capita basis, with the government not keeping one dime. Most people would get more in the monthly dividend than they'd pay in increased prices. This fee and dividend would stimulate the economy and innovations, creating millions of jobs. It is the principal requirement for moving us rapidly to a clean energy future.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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nasa headquarters 2
climate history 2
energy coming 2
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change deniers 2
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amplifying feedbacks 2

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climate change deniers 2

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