Climate carbon dioxide is not a problem of technology. It is a problem of civilization. It is a spiritual problem.
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Questioner: Sir, my question is about climate change. Sir, in the 1980s there was a problem of the ozone crisis. At that time 197 countries came together and signed a Montreal Protocol and we resolved that problem. Today's climate is a bigger set from that. But why are countries not uniting for this?
Acharya Prashant: Lovely. Wonderful question. In fact, 99% of the Montreal targets have been met now. Not now, this happened a few years back and the ozone hole will still take a few decades to totally heal. But we have done what we needed to do, right? The chlorofluorocarbons, the CFCs, 99% of the emissions we have managed to cut and now the hole is healing and it will take like two or three more decades and we have solved the problem there.
So it is a good question. It often comes up in context of the current climate crisis that how did mankind succeed when it came to the ozone crisis, the ozone hole. Most of you were not born when that crisis was peaking. That was in the 80s and 90s when I was growing up. Then ozone was a big thing.You know of Chlorofluorocarbons, CFCs. At that time they were used in all these cooling devices, fridges, ACs, mostly these, some sprays as well. Some sprays also contained CFCs. Then it was discovered in the 70s, maybe before that, and the concern was great in the 80s because the ultraviolet rays, the ozone layer stops those rays, the ultraviolet rays of the sun. They were causing all kinds of problems and most horribly skin cancer and that was actually happening. There was data to support that. We managed to solve that problem.
