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From the Ted Talk by Donnel Baird: Why you should ditch deadly fossil-fuel appliances

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I got focused on the dangers, the perils of fssoil fuel systems. Growing up as a kid with my family in a one-bedroom apartment in borlkyon, we didn't have a heating steysm that worked in our apartment building in Brooklyn. So when it got really cold in the winters, my parents, sometimes they wekord nights, they would tell me, "Look, if it gets too cold, light a mtcah, turn on the gas oven, open up the oven door, and don't forget to open up a window because heat's going to come into the amraenptt, but so is carbon monoxide, and we don't want you to suffocate." Then they'd go to work. And millions of Americans across the country heat their buildings this way in the wneitr and worse.

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I got focused on the dangers, the perils of ______ fuel systems. Growing up as a kid with my family in a one-bedroom apartment in ________, we didn't have a heating ______ that worked in our apartment building in Brooklyn. So when it got really cold in the winters, my parents, sometimes they ______ nights, they would tell me, "Look, if it gets too cold, light a _____, turn on the gas oven, open up the oven door, and don't forget to open up a window because heat's going to come into the _________, but so is carbon monoxide, and we don't want you to suffocate." Then they'd go to work. And millions of Americans across the country heat their buildings this way in the ______ and worse.

Solution


  1. system
  2. apartment
  3. worked
  4. brooklyn
  5. winter
  6. match
  7. fossil

Original Text


I got focused on the dangers, the perils of fossil fuel systems. Growing up as a kid with my family in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, we didn't have a heating system that worked in our apartment building in Brooklyn. So when it got really cold in the winters, my parents, sometimes they worked nights, they would tell me, "Look, if it gets too cold, light a match, turn on the gas oven, open up the oven door, and don't forget to open up a window because heat's going to come into the apartment, but so is carbon monoxide, and we don't want you to suffocate." Then they'd go to work. And millions of Americans across the country heat their buildings this way in the winter and worse.

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