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From the Ted Talk by Kristen Bell + Giant Ant: Why act now?

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Why act now? The best time to act was yesterday. The second best time is today.

Every year that we don't reduce emissions rpseenters another 55 gigatons of greenhouse gases that future generations will have to scrub out of the air. That would cost 8 trillion dollars a year, almost half the entire US economy today. And that price doesn't include the cost of poeple forced to move, the natural world transformed and lives lost. It's much cepaehr to develop new tiegolcoehns that don't emit crbaon dioxide than to capture carbon dioxide that we've already eetitmd.

Every ton of carbon dioxide we emit now imeosps a burden on us and the planet, but also a debt that would have to be paid by our children and utonld gitrnoeanes to come. The sooner we start fixing this, the easier it'll be.

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Why act now? The best time to act was yesterday. The second best time is today.

Every year that we don't reduce emissions __________ another 55 gigatons of greenhouse gases that future generations will have to scrub out of the air. That would cost 8 trillion dollars a year, almost half the entire US economy today. And that price doesn't include the cost of ______ forced to move, the natural world transformed and lives lost. It's much _______ to develop new ____________ that don't emit ______ dioxide than to capture carbon dioxide that we've already _______.

Every ton of carbon dioxide we emit now _______ a burden on us and the planet, but also a debt that would have to be paid by our children and ______ ___________ to come. The sooner we start fixing this, the easier it'll be.

Solution


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  3. represents
  4. technologies
  5. generations
  6. cheaper
  7. untold
  8. imposes
  9. carbon

Original Text


Why act now? The best time to act was yesterday. The second best time is today.

Every year that we don't reduce emissions represents another 55 gigatons of greenhouse gases that future generations will have to scrub out of the air. That would cost 8 trillion dollars a year, almost half the entire US economy today. And that price doesn't include the cost of people forced to move, the natural world transformed and lives lost. It's much cheaper to develop new technologies that don't emit carbon dioxide than to capture carbon dioxide that we've already emitted.

Every ton of carbon dioxide we emit now imposes a burden on us and the planet, but also a debt that would have to be paid by our children and untold generations to come. The sooner we start fixing this, the easier it'll be.

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