Climate Crisis

Climate Change: The Solution Is a Choice

Climate change is more than an environmental crisis—it is a crisis of human choices. Our patterns of consumption, consumerism and endless pursuit of more are putting increasing pressure on the planet. But meaningful change does not necessarily begin with new technology or stricter policies. It begins with a deeper question: what are we willing to change within ourselves?

Rakshabandhan: Who Needs Our Protection

12 min

Rakshabandhan is not merely a festival celebrating the protection of a sister by her brother. Its deeper meaning is about recognizing vulnerability and taking responsibility for what needs protection. Today, that responsibility must extend to the environment—rivers, mountains, trees, oceans, wildlife, and the planet itself. True religion lies in self-knowledge, compassion, and understanding that greater power brings greater responsibility.

When we burn inside, the outside gets hot

9 min

The climate crisis is not caused by nature but by human beings, their growing population and relentless consumption. The desire for greater comfort, wealth and consumption defines success, while increasing families multiply this impact. Green technology alone cannot offset such massive growth in consumption. Climate change also triggers feedback loops that worsen warming. Unless happiness is separated from endless consumption and unchecked desires, the planet will continue moving toward mass extinction.

Why Is the Pursuit of Happiness Making Things Worse?

11 min

Mass extinction is accelerating due to human-driven climate change, resource consumption, and destruction of other species. The deeper problem is a worldview that equates happiness and development with endless consumption. Science itself is not the problem; without inner clarity, its immense power becomes destructive. Advaita points to a different relationship with the world, where it is not an object of exploitation but a means to deepen self-understanding and inner development.

Acharya Prashant at London School of Economics

11 min

Climate change is not merely an external crisis of emissions, technology, or policy. The deeper problem lies in the unchecked ego that seeks to fill inner emptiness through endless consumption. This psychological demand drives extraction, production, and environmental destruction while failing to resolve the underlying sense of incompleteness. Meaningful climate action therefore requires more than green technology and policy; it requires education that turns inward and examines the self.

Climate Change and Global Warming: The Hidden Carbon Emissions of War

24 min

Climate change and global warming cannot be addressed honestly while the world's largest source of hidden carbon emissions—military activity—remains largely excluded from climate accountability. Wars, military expansion, and consumerism arise from the same psychological drive for domination and endless consumption. Unless the Paris Agreement includes military emissions and humanity addresses the inner causes of conflict, every effort to combat climate change will remain incomplete.

India Boils, Cities Cross 45°C — Are We Really This Suicidal?

18 min

Humanity continues to increase emissions despite clear warnings about climate catastrophe. The crisis is not merely technological or political but rooted in endless human consumption and the belief that happiness comes from material accumulation. Development and basic needs are not the problem; blind pursuit of growth is. Lasting solutions require a deeper understanding of human desire, because environmental destruction begins in the mind before it appears in the atmosphere.

Climate Collapse Is Closer Than You Think

17 min

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.

Burning Desires, Burning Planet

34 min

The climate crisis is not merely an external environmental problem but a reflection of inner human greed, desire, and psychological disorder. Drawing from the Gita’s idea of yagya as desireless action, it says real ecological healing requires inner transformation. Outer pollution, exploitation, and destruction mirror the ego’s inner confusion, making personal consciousness and planetary health deeply inseparable.

The President is just the Average American

20 min

From 1945 to today, consumption drives war beneath peace globally. We have continued to be exactly the same as we were on the day of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That war happened because the various powers wanted to consume. Have we changed internally? If not, how can there be peace? The problem is not in the structures of thought or governance. The problem is within.

The Lust to Consume

11 min

All consumption comes from this ecosystem, this planet and in the lust of our blind consumption, we destroy life for everybody. As technology progresses, you will probably be able to consume more with impunity.There is a consumption that is needed for basic physical sustenance and comfort,then there is consumption that happens for entirely different psychological reasons. It is the second type of consumption that I am always worried about.

Sustainability Crisis: Why Humans Consume Endlessly

9 min

Why the question of sustainability is relevant only to our species, out of the billions of species on this planet? Because we have a hollow inside us, and that hollow demands to be filled. So we want more and more manufactured products, more meat, more luxury, more money. And the sad part is, none of that really succeeds in fulfilling you. But you still want to consume endlessly. And that endless consumption, arising from a spiritual point, is what the sustainability crisis is today.

Man Is Climate Change

7 min

I am hungry, I am dissatisfied, I want to consume. And I do not know what it is that would appease me, make me happy, quench my thirst, so I will try out everything. If you have this big a hole in your heart, what else will you do? You will use the entire universe to plug this hole. That is what man has been doing. He wants to eat up everything. The very basis of climate change is the constitution of man himself. Man cannot help climate change; man is climate change.

Climate Disaster: A Spiritual Crisis

18 min

‘I’m not feeling well.’ Your feelings are carbon. No other species is responsible for the climate disaster. We are. Why? Because only the human being has a hollow in her heart. Climate change is the unfulfilled, dark interiors of this species, Homo sapiens. We are destroyers because we are unhappy and loveless within. There can be no scientific, no economic, no political, no technological solution to the climate disaster. Not at all. Because this is purely a spiritual crisis.

There Is No Planet B: ‘Colonising Mars’ Is Fantastic Gibberish

26 min

Let the Earth be destroyed. We have to save humanity. Wow! The human body is 70% water, and the Earth’s surface is also 70% water. Can’t you see that we are the Earth itself? Going to another planet means thinking of collective suicide. Just remember one thing: we don’t live on this planet, we are this planet. Either two of us live together or we go down together, because we are not two at all. We are one.

Why Will Governments Never Solve the Climate Crisis?

6 min

Ours is a democratic system. You are the government. If you want to accelerate climate devastation, it will be accelerated. Who can stop it? A leader is just a poor person, typically an old man. How will he resist the combined might of the electorate? All real change can happen only at the level of the individual. Once it happens there, it takes no time for governments to toe the line.

Climate Action: Why Governments Keep Resisting

7 min

If you think you can do it at the policy level, that sounds very tempting but means nothing, because you are trying to defy the very law of existence. You are saying the minister will do it. Why will the minister do it? The ones in power have the least interest in any climate action because they are the ones with the minimum stakes there. You'll have to awaken the individual so that the one in power listens to you. Awaken the individuals. What else? There is no option.

Floods, Climate, Ozone And The Invisible Culprit

31 min

Climate carbon dioxide is not a problem of technology. It is a problem of civilization. It is a spiritual problem.

India's Green Electricity, or Self-Deception?

5 min

India's emissions are actually rising fast. In 2023, we released three billion tons of carbon dioxide, making us the third largest emitter in the world. And yet, look at our vulnerability. Heat waves last year hit twenty-three states. Floods now displace tens of millions every year. Agriculture, on which more than half of India still survives, is at the mercy of the climate. I ask you, is this a victory or rather a warning?

The Only Solution to the Climate Crisis

21 min

It is only the rich and the ultra rich that are really responsible for the bulk of the carbon emissions. Also the emissions that are being contributed by the common man, they are being encouraged and motivated by the rich. You see, the rich are rich because they sell products to the common middle class. They are rich because they are getting money from you and me as consumers and customers. And how are we turned into customers? By diluting and corrupting our basic philosophy of life. We are told unless you consume your life is not rich.

These Floods can't be Stopped - Here is Why

29 min

The climate crisis is itself a product of internal human ignorance. It comes, we say, from emissions. But why do emissions happen in the first place? Because we burn something. 75% of emissions are coming from our energy needs. But why do you need energy in the first place? Because you want to use energy to pursue your desires. But are your desires worth it in the first place? How do you determine the worthiness of your desires? Are your desires really fulfilling you? So for the sake of these worthless desires, you are destroying the planet. That’s what the climate crisis is.

Climate Change: A Catastrophe Worse Than the Third World War

23 min

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.

Climate Change: A Crisis of Honesty

24 min

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.

Street Dogs: The Harsh Truth Nobody Admits

21 min

Stray dogs need garbage, and with waste reducing, their populations in urban areas are bound to decline. Not just humans, even dogs suffer — crushed by vehicles, beaten up, falling ill, etc. They can either be integrated into our homes with care and responsibility or face extinction from our streets. It is heartwarming to see humans supporting one species, but why doesn’t our heart bleed for the crowds of animals we are slaughtering every day, making many of them extinct forever? Climate change is the biggest threat and is responsible for the maximum misery to animals.

Climate Crisis: Why the United Nations Keeps Failing

7 min

How much has the UN really succeeded when it comes to climate change? Because it's a question of consumption at its core, it cannot be addressed without talking of the consumer — who he really is. Vedanta asks a very fundamental question: For whom? Consumption is for the sake of the one you call as ‘I’. Has consumption really benefited the ‘I’? Will one ever ask what ‘I’ am really hungry for? The moment one does that, life choices will change. In fact, what the United Nations is asking for can be achieved only through the Vedantic route.

When the Fish Disappear, So Do We

15 min

If the current trends of fishing continue, we’ll have virtually empty oceans, no aquatic life, and then we all will disappear too. The oceans are the way they are because you are the way you are. If fish are disappearing from the oceans, they are landing in our homes. And if you want to bring a change in the condition of the oceans, you will have to bring a change in your own condition.

Climate Crisis: Existence Itself Is Wailing

16 min

Climate is an entire industry, which receives hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for tech-based crisis solutions. And technological or scientific or policy measures are just eyewash. On the other pole, a lot of money is flowing towards climate denialism. We do not have enough time to wait for everyone to see on their own that we are on the edge of the final calamity. What you need now is not persuasiveness, but power. The Gita is a message to fight. It’s a war call.

Operation 2030: Mankind Has Just 5 Years — Wake Up and Rush!

38 min

If you have not looked inside yourself and you keep conquering stuff outside, you find all those conquests hollow, and you are still hungry for more. And this hunger is what is devastating the planet.

Slaughtering Animals Is Slaughtering Yourself

11 min

When you look into the eyes of an animal, and if you are really awake, you will only see your own deep innocence, which might be hidden from you. It is impossible to see anything or anybody else when you really look. That thing that you look at, and that which looks back at you is most prominently visible in the eyes. Look at the animal, pause and meditate for a while — and then go ahead and slaughter it, if you can. You’ll only be slaughtering yourself.

Is Man Really Superior to Animals?

12 min

If God stands for innocence, trust, surrender, then animals are closer to God. But man values himself by his ability to exploit. If you always feel hollow and hungry, then the entire universe is but a resource for you. One then wants to exploit the man, the woman, the child, the animals — everything. So, someone who does not want to look at the universe as a resource will not want to kill or consume anything in a violent way.

Food is not just food

8 min

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, do you think that bringing the focus to our diet is going to change anything?

Acharya Prashant (AP): In what sense?

Q: Do you see us heading in the direction of this perfection, completion, along with our diet?

AP: I am seeing that.

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प्रकृति बची रहेगी, ख़त्म इंसान होगा

9 min

क्लाइमेट चेंज, न्यूक्लियर डिज़ास्टर — ये सब ख़तरे इंसान के लिए हैं, पर अपनी फ़िक्र हम नहीं करते क्योंकि उसके लिए सबसे पहले स्वीकार करना पड़ेगा कि हमारे ऊपर ख़तरा है, और हमें ठीक होने की ज़रूरत है

Operation 2030

13 min

There is enough scientific evidence that says if the average global temperature exceeds 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, it could trigger massive feedback loops — self-sustaining and irreversible climatic phenomena. There is evidence that the average global temperature rise has already reached 1.7 degrees centigrade. This operation is a voice against an impending catastrophe — a catastrophe that the younger generations are going to face the brunt of.

The West Would not Look Clean If CO2 had a Colour

23 min

That's a stupid definition of cleanliness, just to call something clean because it looks clean to the eyes. You have to look at the totality of what is happening there. It might look clean to the eyes, but something extremely violent is happening there — and which is made worse by the fact that it is not visible.

Climate Collapse is Within us, Not Out There: Kancha Gachibowli Insight

63 min

We aren't told how biodiversity is such a vulnerable thing—that if a few species go extinct, it's not only those few species, but actually ten times more the species that are put at grave risk. All these things have not been taught to us. So, we need to educate ourselves on our own. We need to understand that—for our own sake and for the sake of our kids—it's necessary that we know that things are apocalyptical right now, that we are well and truly into the sixth mass extinction phase.

California Wildfires: Is Humanity Headed for Collapse?

14 min

Don't be surprised by individual instances of wildfires—these are going to become daily occurrences because they are a result of mankind's flawed life philosophy. So, the solution to climate change cannot come through new technologies, nor by signing some agreements. It can only come by inculcating wisdom in human beings, as without the right philosophy of life, we will keep exploiting the planet.

Can Planting Trees Solve Climate Change?

9 min

It is very well known that one tree, over the course of forty years, would absorb just one ton of carbon dioxide. In one year, it absorbs 0.025 tons. Whereas, having one less child causes a difference of sixty tons per year. Now, do you want to happily plant trees and then go home and have a child? Misplaced climate activism is not solving the problem; it is a part of the problem.

Does Dr. Ambedkar's Legacy Support Vegan Principles?

6 min

Dr. Ambedkar stood for the oppressed, and there is nobody more oppressed in the world today than these little kids from various species. If you're an Ambedkarite, you should be the first one to turn vegan, because oppression should not see caste, gender, color, or species. It is very bad when a human being is oppressed. Is it also not equally terrible when a sheep, a goat, a chicken, a fish, or a pig is slaughtered?

America Pollutes, India Suffers

8 min

The United States has contributed approximately 25% of cumulative global greenhouse gas emissions since 1850, despite comprising only about 4% of the world's population. This exemplifies climate injustice, where wealthier nations emit the majority of carbon emissions, while poorer countries endure the most severe impacts.

Your Absence Might Just Save the Earth

6 min

The world’s problems are solved by those who don’t contribute to them. Leave the world to its fate—just five years, and everything will be alright. The jungles, the rivers, all have the intelligence to care for themselves. You start distorting things the moment you take the world as important, real, and significant. Just stop interfering.

Can Technology Alone Solve Climate Change?

9 min

Climate change is not a problem of wrong technology but of wrong mentality—it is a spiritual problem. No technological improvement alone can curb carbon emissions. The solution must come from an awakening of mass consciousness. People must awaken and elect governments that listen to awakened voices. The challenge is great, but so are the rewards—you are saving not just yourself, your family, or your nation, but the entire planet.

Doomsday Awaits: How the Gita Can Save Earth

49 min

Our species has increased its population and consumed so much that it has destroyed everything. Humans will be the first and only species to wipe themselves out completely. Nothing is surviving on this Earth except us. Now we need new ways of living. We can't live in the old ways. Old desires won't work now. The doer has to be changed, and that's why we need the Gita—not to reach heaven, but to save Earth.

How To Control India’s Population?

15 min

The population will have to be educated in a spiritual way so that we realize that procreation is not the purpose of life, especially not in a woman's life. If the woman is liberated, the population cannot explode. If the population explodes, that's a clear indication of women's misery. Knowledge, consciousness, and realization are much higher joys than the smiling face of your baby.

How Will “Making America Great Again” Harm India?

11 min

Americans constitute only 4% of the global population but are responsible for 25% of the excess CO₂ in the atmosphere. As a result, a huge humanitarian disaster is unfolding, with the Indian subcontinent being the worst sufferer. However, the ego does not consider anyone or anything more significant than its own petty interests. We find this myopic and self-centered behavior in every household; it's just that this is being played out on a much grander scale.

Doomsday: Wake Up, it's Already Late

17 min

We say, “Because the global temperature is rising and there is the climate catastrophe awaiting us, let’s be do-gooders. Let’s recycle plastic, let’s replace our old-style electric bulbs and let’s plant trees.” The thing is, planting trees is way too insufficient, now it’s not going to help. These two trees, four trees that we are thinking of planting are not going to help because the cause is Consumption, the cause is Overpopulation.

Do Vegan Athletes Really Avoid Animal Cruelty?

6 min

If you can deal with human ignorance only then there is the chance, we will be more friendly, more compassionate towards animals. Otherwise, a sectoral approach, a fragmented approach will at most make you feel good about yourself. But in the bigger picture, it does no favor to the animals or to the environment.

Your Worth does not come from Bearing Babies or Breast-Feeding || AP Neem Candies

6 min

Acharya Prashant: You have said, “What kind of change our education system needs to have so that our coming generations live together in peace and fulfillment?” Live together with each other, right? You haven’t said they live together with animals. The trees, the rivers, the rabbits, and the lions. That… read_more