Climate Justice is the Need of the Hour || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 The issue of climate justice is very important.

00:06 The ones who are responsible, they are not suffering.

00:09 The ones who are least responsible are suffering the most.

00:15 Think of all the cyclones and hurricanes and tornadoes and which are the countries that

00:23 suffer most.

00:24 Think of the Pakistan floods.

00:26 Third world countries have not done much and yet they suffer the most.

00:34 So climate justice, it involves people within this species, it also involves people outside

00:41 this species.

00:42 It says that we don't take them as people.

00:54 Is this discussion invigorating or depressing?

00:58 Invigorating, of course.

01:02 So that's the thing.

01:04 I hope that this does not turn off a lot of people, rather makes them realize that they

01:12 can be better.

01:16 It's not a problem that technology can solve.

01:21 It's a problem only spirituality can solve.

01:24 Unless we become better people, there is no way we can even begin to address this problem.

01:32 There is no technological solution to the problem of climate change.

01:37 You cannot have green technologies.

01:39 You know, people are talking of machines that will suck out the carbon from the...

01:46 It says that those machines will emit more carbon than they...

01:51 The machines that really suck carbon from the atmosphere are called by the simple names

01:56 of trees.

01:59 But those machines we are not ready to admit.

02:04 Instead we want to make huge machines that will...

02:07 Come on, come on, it's absorbing carbon.

02:10 Do we understand the size of the atmosphere?

02:12 What kind of machines are we talking of?

02:14 What will power those machines?

02:15 Do we really have technologies, green technologies that can power such huge machines?

02:23 Most of the world's energy is still coming from fossil fuels.

02:27 Fossil fuels are anyway going to run out.

02:28 Why not switch to other technologies?

02:30 Though I'm not saying switching to other technology is a solution.

02:33 We said technology is not the solution.

02:35 But still as an adaptation, just to convince ourselves of the beginning of our sincerity.

02:43 Why can't we begin with these things?

02:45 But even if we develop the greenest of technologies, that's not the solution.

02:53 The solution is a fundamental change in the human being.

02:57 If we continue to remain the people we are, what do you think?

03:04 The COVID pandemic had nothing to do with climate change.

03:09 Everything to do.

03:10 It had everything to do with climate change.

03:12 Because our population is exploding, we are getting deeper into the jungles.

03:17 Because the jungles are getting hotter, the creatures over there have to get into the

03:23 human habitations.

03:25 Therefore these two are now coming in contact and hence the virus would spread.

03:30 Yesterday, it was the coronavirus.

03:34 Tomorrow it would be some other virus.

03:37 Because these two, man and the beast, who used to live peacefully in their own demarcated

03:45 provinces are being forced to come in contact.

03:50 You are breeding more and more kids, so you need land.

03:55 So what do you do?

03:56 You get into the jungle, you hack down the forests.

03:59 Where will those creatures go?

04:02 Obviously they will enter your villages, your towns and then there is contact and then the

04:06 virus spreads.

04:07 We will have more such events.

04:16 Remember even if we are to say that it's not really that we, that mankind as a whole got

04:24 into the jungle.

04:27 It is believed that it was a team of researchers that entered a particular cave containing

04:31 those bats that had the virus.

04:34 What kind of research do you want to do and to what end?

04:49 So I get your point of there needs to be a shift in the center and more spirit, like

04:57 becoming a better human being through a spiritual path or whatever we want to call it.

05:02 So that's a global change that needs to happen if we need to do anything about climate change.

05:11 Eventually, that's the first step before, we are not even acknowledging that climate

05:15 change even or climate crisis even exists.

05:17 There are so many deniers.

05:19 So we are not even to that position.

05:22 But I still feel like as part of this discussion, if we can even come up with, hey, here's what

05:31 someone can do, sitting as an individual in their homes.

05:36 Hey, this is what I can do to probably do something at least.

05:44 Is there something like everyone of, I'm not saying more from a spiritual shift, right?

05:48 That's a much harder battle to win.

05:50 But can we do something on the side as well, each one of us that is easier to do?

05:55 Talk about it.

05:57 [Music]

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