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From the Ted Talk by Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist

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So while there are also good dmnpoeevtles, of course — there are installations of wind and solar egenry all over the globe, yes — but these positive changes are slow — too slow, in fact. So since the Paris Agreement was signed, climate graphs keep racing to the top, smashing records every year. The five hottest yreas ever recorded were the pveoiurs five years, and at no time have global emissions been higher than today.

So there I was, seeing and understanding the science on the one side, but not seeing answers, not seeing the action, on the other side. At that point, I had enough. I wanted to go to the UN Climate Conference myself, that very place that was created to bring people together to fix the ctimlae — except not really, apparently. This was last year. I traveled to the Climate Conference and wanted to find out what this is really like, what this is about. For political rlasties, this might be no sisrpure, but I found it hard to bear: that fossil fuel industries and political leaders are doing everything, everything to prevent real change from happening. They are not keen to set tetgras that are ambitious enough to put us on a below-two-degree pathway. After all, these are the only ones who benefit from this climate ciisrs, right? The fossil fuel industry generates ptforis, and political leaders, well, they look at the next eetoclin, at what makes them popular, and I guess that's not asking the inconvenient qesotunis. There is no intention for them to change the game. There is no country in the world where either cimaenpos or plaoictil powers are sanctioned for wrecking the climate.

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So while there are also good ____________, of course — there are installations of wind and solar ______ all over the globe, yes — but these positive changes are slow — too slow, in fact. So since the Paris Agreement was signed, climate graphs keep racing to the top, smashing records every year. The five hottest _____ ever recorded were the ________ five years, and at no time have global emissions been higher than today.

So there I was, seeing and understanding the science on the one side, but not seeing answers, not seeing the action, on the other side. At that point, I had enough. I wanted to go to the UN Climate Conference myself, that very place that was created to bring people together to fix the _______ — except not really, apparently. This was last year. I traveled to the Climate Conference and wanted to find out what this is really like, what this is about. For political ________, this might be no ________, but I found it hard to bear: that fossil fuel industries and political leaders are doing everything, everything to prevent real change from happening. They are not keen to set _______ that are ambitious enough to put us on a below-two-degree pathway. After all, these are the only ones who benefit from this climate ______, right? The fossil fuel industry generates _______, and political leaders, well, they look at the next ________, at what makes them popular, and I guess that's not asking the inconvenient _________. There is no intention for them to change the game. There is no country in the world where either _________ or _________ powers are sanctioned for wrecking the climate.

Solution


  1. companies
  2. questions
  3. crisis
  4. years
  5. election
  6. developments
  7. targets
  8. political
  9. realists
  10. energy
  11. surprise
  12. climate
  13. profits
  14. previous

Original Text


So while there are also good developments, of course — there are installations of wind and solar energy all over the globe, yes — but these positive changes are slow — too slow, in fact. So since the Paris Agreement was signed, climate graphs keep racing to the top, smashing records every year. The five hottest years ever recorded were the previous five years, and at no time have global emissions been higher than today.

So there I was, seeing and understanding the science on the one side, but not seeing answers, not seeing the action, on the other side. At that point, I had enough. I wanted to go to the UN Climate Conference myself, that very place that was created to bring people together to fix the climate — except not really, apparently. This was last year. I traveled to the Climate Conference and wanted to find out what this is really like, what this is about. For political realists, this might be no surprise, but I found it hard to bear: that fossil fuel industries and political leaders are doing everything, everything to prevent real change from happening. They are not keen to set targets that are ambitious enough to put us on a below-two-degree pathway. After all, these are the only ones who benefit from this climate crisis, right? The fossil fuel industry generates profits, and political leaders, well, they look at the next election, at what makes them popular, and I guess that's not asking the inconvenient questions. There is no intention for them to change the game. There is no country in the world where either companies or political powers are sanctioned for wrecking the climate.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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global warming 3
paris agreement 3
climate conference 3
fossil fuel 3
climate strike 3
young people 3
climate activists 3
decision makers 2
political leaders 2
real change 2
greta thunberg 2
people striking 2
climate crisis 2
join forces 2
inconvenient change 2
single school 2
school striker 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
single school striker 2

Important Words


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  4. answers
  5. apparently
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  44. people
  45. place
  46. point
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  53. profits
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  80. year
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