Acharya Prashant addresses the issue of people attributing natural disasters to divine wrath, a problem highlighted by a questioner whose village is flooded. The speaker explains that this is not a new phenomenon but a result of a thousand-year-old game of beliefs that has caused immense damage to India. While some sections of society have gradually emerged from this darkness over the last century due to education, the majority of India still suffers from severe mental backwardness, characterized by irrational, unscientific, and blind beliefs. He contrasts India's situation with that of Europe, where an intellectual revolution, the Renaissance and Reformation, preceded the scientific revolution. Thinkers like Newton were philosophers before they were scientists, indicating that their minds were first opened through an intellectual awakening, which then led to scientific discoveries. India, however, received borrowed technology from the West without undergoing a similar intellectual revolution. This has resulted in a situation where modern technology, like mobile phones and the internet, is being used to propagate the most debased superstitions, such as apps for exorcising ghosts or performing online animal sacrifices. He laments that in many ways, India is more superstitious and narrow-minded now than it was in the year 2000, and has regressed to a state reminiscent of the 17th century. The speaker connects this mental backwardness directly to the climate crisis. The people most affected by climate change—the poor, uneducated, and backward—are the ones who are most superstitious. They attribute their suffering from disasters like floods, crop failure, and loss of life to divine wrath or past karma, rather than scientific causes. This prevents them from protesting or holding the government accountable. If they were educated and aware, they would start a revolution. Instead, there is a tacit consensus, even among the elite, to let these people perish. The speaker asserts that the biggest threat to life is the climate crisis, and the only solution is a two-pronged approach: first, to raise the standard of education, and second, to bring true, clean spirituality and Self-knowledge to the people. Without this, India will remain the world's backyard, and its people will continue to suffer.