Warning for Gen Z || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: There is an elephant in the room (we smoothly ignore it) || Acharya Prashant (2022)  Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyShhU_pxt0&t=0s  Video Information: 17.10.22, Interview with Kuntal, Mumbai  Context:  Acharya Prashant in conversation with mountaineer Kuntal Joisher and actress Niharica Raizada discussing climate change and global warming. ~ What is the right time to focus on climate change? ~ How to control global warming? ~ Can we survive on Earth after few decades or centuries?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 Everybody needs to repeat it as many times as possible to as many people as possible.

00:07 Mass extinction, that's what we are staring at.

00:10 And we are quickly rushing towards it.

00:14 That's what is happening.

00:15 And the thing is, because we do not experience it on our skins immediately, so we feel as

00:23 if it does not exist.

00:25 That's the first and the most cowardly way of dealing with a disaster.

00:32 Denial.

00:33 Just deny it.

00:34 It does not exist.

00:35 We all want to deny things, bad things, when they first happen to us.

00:39 No, this can't have happened.

00:40 And then there are advanced stages of grief, and then there are other methods of coping

00:44 with it.

00:45 But the first thing itself takes away so much time.

00:48 And we have already lost so much time.

00:50 Like you said, there is denial.

00:52 It means that we know that it is there.

00:54 It's going to come.

00:55 But we tend to avoid it.

00:56 So is it like there are problems that are bigger than that at present that people see?

01:00 And that's why they tend to ignore it?

01:02 No, it's just that if you accept it, then it demands action.

01:07 Acknowledgement means responsibility.

01:09 That's the reason why you find mainstream media giving so little coverage to the most

01:14 important problem of our times.

01:17 We talk of this, we talk of that.

01:19 We don't talk of the thing that means everything to us.

01:23 What you are seeing today, please understand, is carbon dioxide levels that we have not

01:28 seen over the past 10 lakh years.

01:33 10 lakh years, it was never so bad.

01:36 And especially to you, you just told me you're a 2021 pass out from IIT Delhi, you know,

01:41 most of the carbon that we see in the atmosphere today has been emitted in your lifetime, after

01:47 you were born.

01:49 That's how lucky your generation is.

01:51 That's the reason I want to talk more and more to youngsters, see how lucky you are.

01:55 That's what we, the elder ones have done to you.

01:59 That's what we have bequeathed to you.

02:02 Take it.

02:03 Lots of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and that's going to wipe you out.

02:08 [Music]

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