The only solution to Climate Change || AP Neem Candies

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: Vishranti Shivir, 06.10.2019, Mumbai, India  Context:  ~ What is really good? ~ Why is environmentalism not enough? ~ How do we stop climate change?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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00:00 Climate catastrophe is a spiritual problem and it can only have a spiritual solution.

00:13 All else that you see happening around you in the name of climate activism is just tamasha.

00:19 It will not help.

00:20 Haan, it will boost up a lot of egos.

00:23 It will give fame and limelight to a lot of young people.

00:27 They will become climate warriors, they will become saviors of the world.

00:30 Tomorrow one of them might even get the Nobel Prize.

00:35 So much of limelight is there, you know.

00:37 This young man, he has really brought this issue to popular consciousness.

00:44 Let's bestow upon him the Nobel Prize for peace.

00:49 All that can happen.

00:50 But all that will be just symbolic.

00:53 Not helpful at all.

00:54 Or even if it helps, it will help only to a very marginal degree.

01:03 Do you get the real solution?

01:06 From 8 billion, take it back to 2 billion.

01:10 And you don't have to kill people for that.

01:12 You just have to educate and encourage people to not to reproduce.

01:18 Even if they want to have kids, let them have at max one kid.

01:24 And second thing is, this 2 or 3 billion that finally remains must be deeply spiritual from

01:30 the heart so that it does not have a tendency to feast upon the world.

01:38 Are you getting it?

01:40 But the way climate activism is going, it is going in a very blind direction.

01:49 People are trying to get governments to intervene by way of legislation.

01:56 What can the governments do?

01:59 It's a democratic world.

02:01 The governments will only do what the people want them to do.

02:05 And the people want only cosmetic steps to be taken.

02:10 So the governments will take cosmetic steps.

02:16 In fact chances are, as far as this tree plantation exercise is concerned, chances are we have

02:21 already crossed the threshold where tree plantation can reverse the effects of climate change.

02:32 That threshold has already been crossed.

02:35 Now we need stricter action.

02:37 Now we need more meaningful action.

02:39 Now we need real action.

02:43 Planting trees might have been a useful step 20 years back, but that threshold has been

02:48 long since crossed.

02:50 You need to do more concrete action today.

02:53 And more concrete action is not about Friday demonstrations and all those stuff and Friday

02:58 strikes.

03:01 All that is just a show.

03:03 Real action needs to be taken.

03:05 [Music]

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