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Worse Than the 3rd World War || Acharya Prashant (2022)
Acharya Prashant
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11/12/2024
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When you want to say that something utterly terrible might happen, then you say 3rd World
00:07
War.
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What's already happening is worse than the 3rd World War that might or might not happen.
00:15
We are rushing towards our extinction.
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This is the 6th one I said, right?
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Of the previous 5 ones, 3 happened due to exactly the same cause that ails us today,
00:34
carbon dioxide.
00:37
You talked of the receding glaciers of the Himalayas, and you said that's visible there,
00:43
that's not visible here.
00:45
You see, two things, one, because our senses can perceive only gross changes, therefore
00:53
what is happening a bit subliminally, we do not detect it immediately, right?
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I would liken it to getting infected by the HIV, right?
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It can stay in the body for long, and then it erupts.
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It's not AIDS all of a sudden, or even the COVID virus, the disease that we all suffered
01:21
so much from.
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It comes to you and the symptoms do not show up immediately, but when they do show up,
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they can be fatal.
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You said technically the layer should not recede so much there.
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Let me offer you an example, you'll find it interesting.
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In a place like Canada, just a difference of 5 degrees centigrade in the average temperature
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can mean the existence or non-existence of hundreds of meters of ice sheets, just 5 degrees.
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That which you call as the ice age, actually the average temperatures then were not too
02:06
different from what we have now, just 5 degrees.
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And 5 degrees mean unimaginably thick ice sheets or their absence.
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So if 5 degrees lesser can mean that the ice can get that large, 5 degrees higher would
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mean that all the ice can suddenly vanish.
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So what is happening up there and that which you saw is exactly what is going to happen.
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And when we say the average temperatures are already 1.5 above normal, and they'll get
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to 3 degrees, 5 degrees, maybe even 6 degrees, we feel like saying, oh, 6 degrees is not
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much.
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Sometimes it is 24, at other times it's 30, 25 and 24 and 30 are both things that we have
02:54
tolerated, even enjoyed and so 24 and 30 don't mean much, they mean a lot.
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They basically mean that 80 to 90% of all life on the planet is about to go extinct.
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That's the severity of the problem we are facing.
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It's not about the kind of daily weathers that we experience.
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Oh, it's a bit humid today, or it's raining without reason, you know, don't you feel a
03:23
bit warm under the collar?
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It's not that kind of thing, we're not talking about the weather, it's climate change.
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Everything is going to change and the planet will become inhabitable, not only for us,
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but for all species that we know of.
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That's the extent of the crisis.
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I repeat, everybody needs to repeat it as many times as possible to as many people as
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possible.
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Mass extinction, that's what we are staring at.
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And we are quickly rushing towards it.
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That's what is happening.
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And the thing is, because we do not experience it on our skins immediately, so we feel as
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if it does not exist.
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It's the first and the most cowardly way of dealing with a disaster, denial.
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Just deny it.
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It does not exist.
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We all want to deny things, bad things when they first happened to us.
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No, this can't have happened.
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And then there are advanced stages of grief, and then there are other methods of coping
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with it.
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But the first thing itself takes away so much time.
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And we have already lost so much time.
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Like I said, there is denial.
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It means that we know that it is there, it's going to come, but we tend to avoid it.
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So, is it like there are problems that are bigger than that at present that people see?
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And that's why they tend to ignore it?
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No, it's just that if you accept it, then it demands action.
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Acknowledgement means responsibility.
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That's the reason why you find mainstream media giving so little coverage to the most
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important problem of our times.
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We talk of this, we talk of that.
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We don't talk of the thing that means everything to us.
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What you are seeing today, please understand, is carbon dioxide levels that we have not
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seen over the past 10 lakh years.
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10 lakh years, it was never so bad.
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And especially to you, you just told me your 2021 pass out from IIT Delhi, you know, most
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of the carbon that we see in the atmosphere today has been emitted in your lifetime, after
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you were born.
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That's how lucky your generation is.
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That's the reason I want to talk more and more to youngsters, see how lucky you are.
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That's what we, the elder ones have done to you.
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That's what we have bequeathed to you.
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Take it.
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Lots of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and that's going to wipe you out, finished.
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