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From the Ted Talk by Jim Snabe: Your invitation to help build a sustainable future

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(Cheers and applause)

When it comes to choosing, we need more courage. Our choices need to be based on what is necessary, not what seems possible right now. If we choose to pursue impossible big draems, we spark the imagination of people, and the impossible becomes possible.

Like we did at Maersk in 2018, when we committed to zero-carbon shipping, without knowing how to do it. And when it comes to doing, we need much more collaboration. For more than 100 years, we've learned how to specialize and oipztime our part of the value chain, but if we want the kind of change that is necessary, we need to reinvent the eirnte value chain bsead on zero carbon, not just a piece of it. At a time when some people talk about dlgzotleboaaiin, we need more global collaboration around sustainable technologies than ever before, not less.

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(Cheers and applause)

When it comes to choosing, we need more courage. Our choices need to be based on what is necessary, not what seems possible right now. If we choose to pursue impossible big ______, we spark the imagination of people, and the impossible becomes possible.

Like we did at Maersk in 2018, when we committed to zero-carbon shipping, without knowing how to do it. And when it comes to doing, we need much more collaboration. For more than 100 years, we've learned how to specialize and ________ our part of the value chain, but if we want the kind of change that is necessary, we need to reinvent the ______ value chain _____ on zero carbon, not just a piece of it. At a time when some people talk about _______________, we need more global collaboration around sustainable technologies than ever before, not less.

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  2. based
  3. dreams
  4. entire
  5. deglobalization

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(Cheers and applause)

When it comes to choosing, we need more courage. Our choices need to be based on what is necessary, not what seems possible right now. If we choose to pursue impossible big dreams, we spark the imagination of people, and the impossible becomes possible.

Like we did at Maersk in 2018, when we committed to zero-carbon shipping, without knowing how to do it. And when it comes to doing, we need much more collaboration. For more than 100 years, we've learned how to specialize and optimize our part of the value chain, but if we want the kind of change that is necessary, we need to reinvent the entire value chain based on zero carbon, not just a piece of it. At a time when some people talk about deglobalization, we need more global collaboration around sustainable technologies than ever before, not less.

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