Unveiling the Culprits: The Origins of Deadly Carbon Emissions || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 When we are talking of the sixth mass extinction phase, we already are in two.

00:10 It is a carbon dioxide led thing.

00:14 Right?

00:15 And of the previous five mass extinctions, three were caused by the same reason, carbon

00:22 dioxide.

00:23 So, there is nothing new.

00:25 There is nothing you can contest.

00:27 There is nothing you can doubt the validity or prospects of.

00:31 We know what happens when carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rises.

00:36 It has happened before and thrice.

00:40 And it's happening for the fourth time.

00:41 Where is all this carbon coming from?

00:47 Who is emitting so much carbon in the environment?

00:50 Who is doing this?

00:51 You have to understand.

00:54 It's the darkness inside our minds that's emitting all the carbon.

01:03 And I understand it sounding too poetic.

01:06 But please stay with this.

01:10 Carbon emissions are coming from our ceaseless consumption.

01:18 The more we consume, the more we emit carbon.

01:27 In fact, everything that we take as important, everything that we take as a supplier of happiness

01:39 is very high on the list of things that emit carbon.

01:49 Why do we want to endlessly consume?

01:51 Be it a house, a car, the world, human beings, or animals.

02:01 We want to consume them because we simply have ignorance within.

02:08 We are born with an innate dissatisfaction.

02:12 And we think that a lot of consumption will take care of that dissatisfaction.

02:17 That's a simple reason.

02:19 Nothing very complicated, very spiritual in that.

02:23 You're not feeling good.

02:25 What do you do?

02:26 You purchase something on Amazon.

02:30 Or you go watch a movie.

02:32 Or you go eat something out.

02:36 So when do you feel the happiest?

02:42 When you have a new four-wheeler, that's when you're congratulated a lot.

02:47 Or when you have gone to the new exotic tourist destination, you post your pics.

02:55 You're supposed to be happy.

02:57 And others are supposed to congratulate.

02:59 And that's what happens.

03:01 And that's where all the carbon comes from.

03:03 I'm talking facts, not just poetry.

03:08 This is fact.

03:09 Carbon comes from air travel.

03:14 Carbon comes when you raise your comfort and convenience level.

03:21 Carbon emission is the highest in the developed world.

03:24 And even among the residents of the developed world, the top 1% to 5% in terms of economics

03:37 contribute way beyond their numbers.

03:42 The more ambitious you are, the bigger a chaser of money you are, the more you are pushing

03:52 the planet towards mass extinction.

03:55 That's what is happening.

03:58 It's as simple and as obvious as that.

04:03 And see how wonderful it is that some people will still say, "Oh, I didn't know.

04:09 I didn't know."

04:14 And each of us are micro mirror images of the ones who are contributing the maximum

04:25 to climate change.

04:28 It's just that they have the resources, the wherewithal to actually add a lot of carbon

04:34 to the atmosphere.

04:36 We don't have so many resources, but we have the same ambition.

04:41 We want to be like them.

04:43 They have a personal jet.

04:46 And you have reports available, public reports of celebrities using personal jets to cover

04:54 a distance of 30 miles, 40 miles, 50 miles.

05:02 Because they can.

05:03 That's a whim, that's a quid, because I can.

05:05 Else, how do I justify my life?

05:09 Why else am I earning so much?

05:13 The common man cannot match that.

05:16 What does he do?

05:18 He has to go to Jaipur from Delhi.

05:21 He takes a flight.

05:24 The highway is great usually.

05:28 Sometimes it's clogged, otherwise it's good.

05:30 But then sometimes flights are also delayed.

05:34 Sometimes flights can in fact just return to the base, given that the Delhi-Jaipur sector

05:41 experiences heavy fog in winters.

05:47 But that's what, some 250 kilometers or something?

05:50 And people want to still.

05:53 So it's the darkness in the mind that thinks that you are born to consume and consumption

06:03 will make you happy.

06:04 The fundamental philosophy of mankind is flawed.

06:08 We do not know who we are and why we are born.

06:12 That's the problem.

06:14 You are born suffering.

06:18 So the first thing that comes to your mind is pursuit of happiness.

06:24 And the market tells you that you can have happiness through consumption.

06:29 Come buy my stuff, it will make you happy.

06:31 And it does make you happy for a while.

06:33 It says that happiness is in the first place no cure for suffering.

06:39 Your problem is not that you do not have happiness.

06:41 Your problem is that you have suffering.

06:44 And happiness is no remedy.

06:47 First of all, happiness is no remedy.

06:49 Secondly, happiness that comes from consumption, far from being a remedy, is a problem, is

06:56 a huge, huge monster.

06:59 Mass extinction.

07:01 For the planet itself.

07:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]

07:06 [music]

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