Global Climate Catastrophe

Question: Is there a real solution to the problem of global warming?

Acharya Prashant: At the root of the climate catastrophe lies man’s tendency to consume and man consumes in three clear ways and three distinct ways. Man wants to consume the entire world and the entire world consists of human beings, prakratik beings which you call as natural beings and man-made things. Man consumes all three and consumption of all three leads to carbon emissions.

When you consume another human being, what do you get? Kids. And that is the biggest cause of carbon emissions. When you consume man-made things, again what do you emit? Carbon, because whatever is man-made is made using energy and energy comes from fossil fuels. So, whenever you are consuming something man-made, you are causing carbon emissions. And the third thing is the consumption of natural resources. Whether you are eating vegetables, whether you are a vegan or not, or whether you are consuming meat, all of this is highly carbon-emitting. Even if you are vegan you will eat grains at least. Where will the grains come from? They can only come by felling forests.

We need two things- fewer people and less consumption and both of them together.

You need a situation where there are not more than two or three billion people in the world, that has been scientifically calculated…