Questioner: Hello Sir, Good Evening. As we are seeing unexpected heat in the early 2023, like it’s just February, March, and it’s already this hot. Also, the scientists expect that this year would be the hottest year in the last century. And the world population is also increasing rapidly. So, what do you think of this word ‘Climate Crisis’ ? Is there any way out of it?
Acharya Prashant: Where is the crisis coming from? The answer is so obvious & so simple that we don’t want to look at it. We want dramatic solutions to complex problems. Here the solution is obvious, and the problem is not complex. Who’s causing all the heat? Where are all the emissions coming from? The dinosaurs did that? The rats, and the wolves, and the birds, and the fish, and the tress, they are doing all this? The fields, the butterflies, snakes maybe, they are the vile creatures, all the baddies. Snakes must be causing climate change.
Who’s causing climate change? We are causing climate change. That’s what, full stop. And it’s, even a class four student can see the obvious. The number of people multiplied by per capita consumption, right? That’s proportional to your greenhouse emissions. Is that not simple? And once you do it, it’s done. Carbon dioxide, or methane, or water vapor, released into the atmosphere stays there for very, very long. Long, not in terms of weeks, not in terms of months, in terms of hundreds of years. Once done very difficult to undo it.
Also, there are negative feedback cycles. You must have read of it as informed young students. What are these feedback cycles? What are these feedback cycles, please tell me? That simply means that climate change will do something that will further aggravate climate change. For example, you have ice. Let’s say there is ice on this surface. What is the color of the surface? Dark color, let’s say brown or black. And there’s ice on the surface and what’s the color of ice? White You very well know which color, which color traps radiation and which color reflects radiation back. If there is ice on it and lights falls, what does ice do the light? Sends it back, right? Because of its color, ice cannot absorb too much light and if ice cannot absorb light, ice cannot also absorb heat, correct?
