Climate Change: the hole in man's heart || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 When man eats up man, the result is population.

00:08 What is this population?

00:09 The woman goes out and eats up the man.

00:15 You have babies.

00:16 The man goes out and wants to eat up as many women as possible.

00:19 You have babies.

00:22 Right?

00:23 So, from the drive to consume, first of all, come babies when the object of consumption

00:34 is a human being.

00:36 Right?

00:37 The next object of consumption is man-made objects.

00:39 Because they too are available.

00:41 Why must I spare them?

00:44 So when man wants to consume man-made objects, the result is he guzzles up fossil fuel.

00:53 Give me more diesel, give me more petrol.

00:55 Where else would the energy come from?

00:58 I want buildings.

00:59 I want to consume and whatever you want to consume has to be firstly manufactured.

01:04 How will I manufacture it if I don't have energy?

01:07 And energy from any of the sources as we currently know is carbon intensive.

01:19 Even the so-called green energy has a strong carbon footprint when seen in totality.

01:30 So when man consumes man-made objects, again the result is more consumption and more carbon.

01:43 And then man says I will consume the natural world as well.

01:49 Why should these folks roam about happy and untouched?

01:55 Maybe they can make me happy.

01:57 How about some beef?

01:59 How about more corn?

02:04 How about turning a great banyan tree into a bonsai?

02:08 I want it in a little pot.

02:11 I will keep it in my bedroom.

02:14 Are you getting it?

02:20 How about developing a delectable waterfront by the side of a great river?

02:30 I will go there and satisfy my senses.

02:32 And what is the waterfront all about?

02:35 Tons and tons of cement.

02:43 I will consume everything.

02:47 And if you will look at these three types of consumption, you will understand what climate

02:52 change is in all its totality.

02:54 Nothing drives climate change except these three.

03:00 Man consuming man, and when I say man, I mean mankind.

03:05 It is not a gender specific thing.

03:07 When I say man consuming man, that gives birth to unsustainable populations.

03:17 When I say man consuming man-made objects, that is what is meant by, generally meant

03:24 by the level of consumption.

03:28 And when I say man consuming the natural world, that is what is meant by loss of biodiversity,

03:36 excessive fishing, extinction of species and what not.

03:45 So that is the overall framework.

03:48 You cannot look at any small part of it.

03:51 You have to go to the very basis of it.

03:54 The very basis of climate change is the constitution of man himself.

04:00 It is not a specific activity of man that is leading to climate change.

04:07 The very constitution of man is such that he is bound to destroy everything.

04:11 It is just that sometimes he calls his destruction as construction.

04:16 Real construction is something totally different.

04:21 It does not come from that line of thought which prohibits man from looking at itself.

04:26 Real construction or real creativity comes from another mind which due to the various

04:37 vicissitudes of history could never gain enough prominence or power to guide the course of

04:44 history.

04:46 That kind of mind has sometimes been found in the Orient, though it is fairly lost now.

05:02 So man as he is, is climate change.

05:08 So climate change is not merely man-made.

05:14 Climate change is man's compulsion.

05:18 Man cannot help climate change.

05:21 Man is climate change.

05:25 If you have this big a hole in your heart, what else will you do?

05:30 You will use the entire universe to plug this hole.

05:34 And if you find this planet earth too little to fill up your hole, then you will proceed

05:50 towards other planets.

05:51 Of course, man is the only animal blessed with intellect.

05:55 So you can do that.

05:57 You can do that.

05:58 You can now go and colonize Mars and you can say we have eaten away whatever there was

06:05 to be eaten on the earth.

06:08 Now it is the turn of another planet.

06:10 Gobble it up.

06:12 [Music]

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