Climate Activism or Climate Hypocrisy? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Don't blindly rush into 'good' deeds || Acharya Prashant (2019) ~~~~~~~~~~~~

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00:00It is very well known that one tree over the course of 40 years would absorb just one ton

00:07of carbon dioxide.

00:09How effective is that, please?

00:11And that is if that tree lives to get 40 years old.

00:15One tree over 40 years absorbs one ton of carbon dioxide.

00:19In one year, how much does it absorb?

00:220.025.

00:230.025 ton.

00:24One.

00:26Whereas, having one less child causes a difference of 60 tons per year.

00:33Now, do you want to plant trees happily and then go home and have a child?

00:38One child is 60 tons per year and one tree is 0.025 tons per year.

00:45But by planting a tree, you start feeling that you have done your bit and you feel very

00:49happy.

00:50Now, you can go on a date, get married and then obviously you will have kids.

00:54This is the kind of thing I become very unhappy with.