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Video Information: 17.10.2022, IIT Mumbai
Context:
~ Unhappy with your job?
~ What to do if I hate my job?
~ When should one quit his or her job?
~ Why do we take nature for granted?
~ Why am I so unhappy?
~ What is the cause of the climate crisis?
~ Who are your role models?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 17.10.2022, IIT Mumbai
Context:
~ Unhappy with your job?
~ What to do if I hate my job?
~ When should one quit his or her job?
~ Why do we take nature for granted?
~ Why am I so unhappy?
~ What is the cause of the climate crisis?
~ Who are your role models?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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LearningTranscript
00:00See, climate change is not caused by all the little things that you do.
00:09You can relieve yourself of that guilt.
00:13It's not you and me who are responsible for climate change.
00:20If just to exist is to contribute to the climate crisis, then we would all be guilty, but that's
00:28not really the case.
00:31There is a perfect balance that nature provides.
00:35You have agents that emit carbon and equally you have agents that absorb carbon.
00:47What are those agents known as?
00:50Trees and the oceans.
00:56They absorb these gases.
01:00What's happening is that you have crossed all limits by a long distance, 280 ppm to
01:10440 ppm and increasing and increasing at an accelerating rate.
01:16Who's doing that?
01:19Not the common man, though there are vested interests that are trying to put the guilt
01:28of climate change on the common man.
01:31The common man is not really responsible.
01:33The common man is responsible, but in some other way, indirectly, we'll come to that.
01:40The richest 10% of the world's population is causing 90% of the carbon emissions and
01:57if you bring that down to the richest 1%, that still remains close to 30-40%.
02:06It's so skewed.
02:10The per capita emissions of an Indian are only a small fraction of those of an American
02:19or a Briton.
02:23It's coming from there.
02:26There is enough allowance for everybody to peacefully survive.
02:33What we do not have is the allowance to consume endlessly.
02:43So it's not as if doing anything contributes to carbon emission, no, not that way.
02:49And if it does, then there is stuff to take care of that.
02:53Trees and other physical mechanisms, natural mechanisms.
02:59But when you are burning oil endlessly so that you can have physical comforts and all
03:11kinds of vanities, then there is obviously no solution.
03:20How do you take care of that?
03:23Now here comes the role of the common man.
03:27This has to be turned into an electoral issue.
03:31You have to elect governments that are prepared to tax vulgar consumption.
03:42You have to have governments that are prepared to tax the ultra-rich.
03:49You cannot let them go scot-free with all the damage they are causing to the environment,
03:58to the planet itself.
03:59We were talking of the sixth mass extinction.
04:03That sixth mass extinction is not being brought about by the lower middle-income countries
04:12and the middle-income countries.
04:14It is being brought about by the first world, the developed world.
04:21They are the culprits and they'll have to bear the burden.
04:25And even in countries like India, if the per capita emissions are rising, the responsibility
04:36lies with only a handful of people compared to our population.
04:41They are the ones who have to be singled out and taxed.
04:48Are you getting it?
04:50It is a very clever ploy to make the common man feel responsible.
05:00So what does the common man start doing to alleviate his guilt?
05:06He feels fine, I am recycling, I am not using plastic that much now or I am turning organic
05:15or I am reducing my electricity consumption by 15%.
05:21The question is, dear, how much electricity does the common man anyway consume?
05:29It's not the common man who is causing all this.
05:32I'll tell you who is causing it.
05:34Your role models are causing all this.
05:37The influential fellow you referred to is causing all this and it's a great tragedy
05:44when the ones who are influential are neither intellectual nor spiritual.
05:51Think of it.
05:52A braindead fellow is so influential just because he has so much money and you can have
05:58a lot of money without being intellectual at all.
06:01It is possible.
06:02It is happening.
06:05Your role models are very unworthy people and they are role models exactly because you
06:11find them consuming a lot and you all aspire to consume that much.
06:16So they become your role models.
06:18You say, wow.
06:21Somebody asked a famous soccer player and he says, I have 20 cars, all luxury ones.
06:29And that simply charms you so much, wins you over, 20 cars, 5 Rolls Royce.
06:40He does not even want to own a cheap thing like Mercedes.
06:51Not one, but multiple private planes, super expensive yachts, yachts to take care of yachts.
07:00And that's what we all aspire for.
07:04Why?
07:05That brings us to the point we started from, our dualistic philosophy of life.
07:12We all have been taught wrongly.
07:14We have been trained wrongly.
07:19Life education we have been deprived of.
07:25So all that you want through all that you do is consumption.
07:30What do you live for?
07:31Consumption.
07:32How do you know a fellow is doing well in life?
07:34He is able to consume a lot.
07:37When consumption is the ideal, climate change is the result.