Man's inner ignorance is global climate catastrophe || Acharya Prashant (2019)

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00:00India has 1.4 billion people. India's carbon footprint is very small compared to that of

00:07the US. So numbers right now don't matter that much. Compared to this, the one or two

00:16kids that an affluent family has are a far bigger problem. Think of their carbon footprint.

00:26And having a kid is not merely having a kid. It is a geometric progression. You have a

00:33kid, the kid will have kids. And then they will have kids. It's not one person you have

00:39given birth to. You have given birth to 100 persons. There is an estimate that says that

00:47a woman can do all sorts of climate activism all her life and save a few tons of carbon

01:00emissions. But if she just decides to have one less child, she can save six times more

01:07carbon emissions without doing anything else. Either she can go out four hours every day

01:13of her life and indulge in tree plantation and this and that. And every single day of

01:19life she can indulge in climate activism. And that will result in the lessening of the

01:27global climate load by x tons. Right? The other option is don't do anything. There is

01:34no need for any climate activism. Just have one less child. And by having one less child,

01:40you will save 6x tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Are you getting it? It is available. It is

01:57not being shared and broadcasted. It is very much available. Where else am I getting it

02:04from? I didn't meditate and get this knowledge. I am getting it from public sources.

02:13It is just that people become too emotional if you tell them have one less child. I have

02:23tried with a couple of my friends. They are just like, no, my kid needs a company or...

02:27To hell with their emotions. Who are you? When somebody is being dragged to the jail,

02:34he obviously feels emotional. So what? You will have to pay for your follies. When somebody

02:45doesn't get selected in an entrance exam, he or she does feel emotional. So what? Just

02:50because you are emotional, you cannot be granted a pardon or a favor. Now you see why lack

03:02of spirituality is the biggest problem? Because when you do not operate from a spiritual center,

03:09then you operate from an emotional center. These emotions are what is causing this climate

03:14change. And I am really surprised that so many people who are highly emotional are into climate

03:24activism. When the entire problem is of emotions, you are so emotional about that next foreign

03:32holiday, right? That is carbon intensive. You are so emotional about having a good,

03:38nice nest of your own. That is carbon. You are so emotional about having two nice kids. That

03:44is emotion. And that is carbon. Emotion equals carbon in a big way. And the problem to this

03:55emotional center is nothing but spirituality. Think of it. Whenever you go emotional,

04:05you start releasing carbon dioxide. Don't you? When you go emotional, you either drink,

04:11and that is carbon. Or you go and have a party, and that is carbon. This entire model we have

04:27based our lives on, this center around which we are living, is flawed. And that is what is leading

04:36to this climate catastrophe. We are not addressing the central problem. We are just dabbling on the

04:47periphery. And that will not help.

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