Climate Change: A Catastrophe Worse Than the Third World War
Climate change is not merely a problem — everything is going to change, and the planet will become uninhabitable not only for us humans but for all species. Mass extinction is what we are staring at — a catastrophe worse than the ‘Third World War.’ But we do not discuss this because it challenges our basic philosophy of life that says, "More is better." The climate crisis is a product of a wrong way of living. Therefore, taking Vedanta to every household is striking at the very roots of the climate crisis.
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Questioner: Thank you Acharya Ji for taking the time and giving us this opportunity to sit down with you and discuss climate change, veganism, and a lot of other questions that we have for you. With me I have on the panel today, Niharika Raizada Ji, a renowned actress, and my name is Kuntal Joisher, I am a mountaineer.
Acharya Prashant: I am glad to be here.
Questioner: So, I had this thought where in the last twelve years of my climbing mountains, going on Everest and many other mountains in Nepal, in the Indian Himalayas, across the world, as I have been going every year, I have been seeing that there are drastic impacts of climate change that I can see on the mountains that I am climbing. Especially, let's say around glaciers melting in the mountains, like I go to Everest, every year I see that the glacier is receding internally, internally. Even the glacier at eight thousand meters where the temperature is easily about minus twenty-five, minus thirty degrees, even that is losing ice, and it is receding at that altitude where impacts of climate change should not be seen technically or scientifically.
