Already late to save the planet? || Acharya Prashant, with Ms Gauri Maulekhi (2023)
Full Video: The One Most Important thing about life || Acharya Prashant, with Ms. Gauri Maulekhi (2023)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOAMwMOI13U&t=0s
Video Information: 04.04.23, with Ahimsa Fellows (Online-talk), Greater Noida
Context:
What is the solution to climate change?
How spirituality can stop the climate change?
Climate change have no scientific solution
How veganism is related to compassion?
Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
What is the relation between veganism and climate change?
How could veganism change the world?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOAMwMOI13U&t=0s
Video Information: 04.04.23, with Ahimsa Fellows (Online-talk), Greater Noida
Context:
What is the solution to climate change?
How spirituality can stop the climate change?
Climate change have no scientific solution
How veganism is related to compassion?
Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
What is the relation between veganism and climate change?
How could veganism change the world?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Transcript
00:00 Are we too late to save the planet, Acharya ji?
00:06 I mean, is it really too late?
00:10 Sometimes I feel like saying yes, it is already too late.
00:16 Probably that is the fact as well.
00:23 But that does not matter.
00:26 You see, it might not be too late, it might already be too late, how does it matter?
00:31 One has to just keep fighting on.
00:37 Not for those who are gone, not for the future, but for the present possibility that there
00:50 is something precious, lovely, worthwhile that can probably be redeemed.
01:00 And one will not be able to forgive herself if one doesn't give it all one has.
01:09 You see, I don't know about the future of the planet.
01:16 So the more I go into the science of it, the more it starts looking quite certain that
01:30 this unfortunate and monstrous species of ours isn't going to last another hundred
01:40 years.
01:42 In fact, within the next decade or two, we'll start seeing very, very obvious signs of the
01:55 approaching end.
01:57 All that is going to happen in our lifetime.
02:00 But anyway, when a hundred years is too distant a future, I do not know what would happen.
02:06 How much time do we have to live as individuals?
02:09 I suppose at most I have a few decades.
02:15 The fellows are probably younger, they'll have a spare decade or two compared to me.
02:23 We don't have too much time, let's fight it out.
02:26 And that's the best use we can put our life to.
02:30 That's how I look at it.
02:33 I don't know what the result of this battle would be, but it's worth fighting.
02:44 Calculations tell me that the odds are not in our favor.
02:53 But in things like these, calculations don't matter that much.
02:59 Even if there is just a 0.1% probability left, one would still give it everything.
03:08 It's like having a loved one in ICU or on ventilator.
03:16 One cannot give up.
03:18 One fights till the last breath.
03:24 So that's what we can do.
03:32 I also know that our individual efforts are probably not going to suffice.
03:38 So one waits for creation to throw up something quite unexpected.
03:51 It's not as if we are the sole guardians responsible for the entire creation.
04:04 Things happen and strange things happen.
04:07 They say truth is stranger than fiction.
04:14 Even COVID had the potential to teach us so much about the fragility of our ecosystems,
04:23 about the impermanence of all that we have, and about the helplessness of all man-made
04:32 support systems.
04:36 So we never know what's in store.
04:42 And when an opportunity might present itself.
04:46 So let's just keep doing the maximum and the best we can.
04:51 And even if nothing comes out of it, it would at least be a life well spent.
04:59 We can die in peace.
05:00 Yeah, you're absolutely right.
05:17 It's uncanny how our thoughts completely align.
05:19 I also feel that it's to be fought because it's a battle worth fighting.
05:27 And it's something that would, you know, joy or not, but it at least does not give us the
05:35 guilt at the end of the day of having done nothing.
05:38 So while we see too much, it's just whatever little bit that we can spend our time doing
05:47 to make things better.
05:50 Thank you so much for your answer.