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A Crisis of Climate within each of us || Acharya Prashant, with Bard College (2022)
Prakrati
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2 years ago
Climate Crisis
Consumerism
Personal Transformation
Spiritual Awakening
Capitalism
Environmental Ethics
Vedanta
Sustainability
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the urgency of the climate crisis by arguing that conventional methods like legislation and regulation have failed over the last four decades. He explains that the rate of environmental degradation has only accelerated, suggesting that our trust in these external systems is misplaced. Instead, he proposes a spiritual route, which he defines not as esoteric or paranormal, but as the dissemination of holistic information and right diagnosis. He asserts that the climate crisis is not an external infection but a deep-seated malaise arising from within the human mind, which he refers to as the soul. He emphasizes that climate change, insane consumerism, and capitalism are inseparable and must be treated together as a single crisis of the human personality.