Fill in the Blanks TED Talk: The Cost of Preventing Climate ChangeOnline version Let's complete the sentences from Yuval Noah Harari's TED talk by clicking on the words listed on the right. Remember you need to do it in order - start with the first sentence and work your way down one by one - as the word you click automatically goes to the next available gap. by Marietta Chela 1 1 . What would it cost to prevent climate change ? 2 . My team and I have spent weeks over various reports and academic papers living in a cloud of numbers . 3 . If humanity increases our annual investment in technologies and by around two percent of global GDP , that should be enough to prevent catastrophic climate change . 4 . The crucial news is that the price of preventing the apocalypse is in the low digits of annual global GDP . 5 . The two - percent figure represents only a rough . It should be understood as a ballpark that can help to frame the kind of political project humanity requires . 6 . two percent of annual global GDP is far from the whole story , of course . 7 . We'll need to make sure that the funds are invested in the right places and that the new investments don't cause their own negative ecological or social . 8 . In just the first nine months of 2020 , governments around the world announced measures worth nearly 14 percent of global GDP to deal with the COVID - 19 pandemic . 9 . The money is there . Of course , collecting taxes , stopping food wastage and slashing is easier said than done , especially when faced by some of the most powerful in the world .
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