Climate change is assaulting us right within our homes. It is just that right now, the most underprivileged are bearing the brunt and the luckier ones are able to afford negligence. Not that they don't know the facts, but they are able to afford to neglect them for now. And what to do when one knows the facts, yet wants to deny them? The science of climate change is so easy. The problem, therefore, is not education but honesty. Your education system is not teaching honesty — it is only teaching external things, nothing internal.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. I'm Vishnu and I have started listening to your sessions from a session in IIT Bombay that I attended as a student. So my question is mostly on climate change. When we do talk to people on climate change, we most often come across a lot of climate deniers who treat climate change as a hoax. So here, my question is mostly revolving around: what is the proof that we should give to them to challenge their stance and educate them about the seriousness of the issue that we are facing?
Acharya Prashant: Welcome. You come from just the right place. You see, the proof that you need to give is not subtle, not immaterial, nothing hidden from the eyes. It is all available in the research reports. It's all over the internet. It's there in the news. So all that is there. It's just that, because the media does not highlight it that much, so you have to dig a little for the news and the proof that climate change is actually happening. And not just happening, the change is actually at a pace that even scientists had not anticipated.
Usually, we put it in this way: that by 2025, 1.3° ± 0.4° temperature change is expected or apprehended. So scientists tend to put it conservatively. That's their job. They are not meant to create sensations. But even the scientific estimates are being exceeded, and we have more proof than we can tolerate from all over the world. You have so much from India, you have so much from the US, Europe, Australia, Mexico, China. All parts of the world are experiencing once-in-a-century kind of extreme weather situations.
