Climate denial is less about ignorance and more about refusing to face uncomfortable truths. Environmental destruction reflects narrow self-interest, collective confusion, and a failure to see the connection between inner values and outer consequences. The greatest burden falls on the poor, future generations, and other species. Lasting solutions require a change in human consciousness, not merely technological or political fixes.
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Questioner: Namaste, sir. There is the climate denialism is actually peaking right now. And despite knowing that fossil fuels are the biggest contributors to greenhouse gases and global warming and carbon emissions, I linked it with the rise in right-wing authoritarian governments across the world and how they are linked with both immature voters and the leaders themselves who want to, you know, ensure that their subjects are enslaved and not empowered internally. And there has been a link between right-wing politics and climate denialism. There is some link between the two.
And it seems right now that our collective ego as human beings is dominating the state of the environment right now, and we are doing anything but looking at ourselves to change the situation. That's the last thing that we want to do. That's something that doesn't even occur to anyone.
In fact, if you mention this to anyone that, you know, looking at yourself is actually, you know, the solution, not the beginning of the solution to the climate crisis, people are baffled. They don't understand what you're talking about, and then they start talking about the economic system and, you know, how complicated everything is. They want steps, actions in the outside world that are still somehow unable to shake the system as it is. I see that as one of the defenses of self-knowledge that we get. How do you see this actually ending for us? I don't think that it's, of course, I mean, you are doing this very difficult work of making people look at themselves. How do you see it ending for us, like in the context of the climate crisis?
