00:002015, we had already realized that the climate crisis is the gravest danger mankind has ever faced.
00:09We in 2025 are already seeing global average temperatures above normal by not only 1.5 but by 1.75 degrees centigrade also.
00:20It's a great, great warning sign.
00:23We have to start with the ground reality.
00:26The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that has set up the provision for the COPs, Conference of Parties,
00:41so that we are able to pose some kind of effective challenge to the climate crisis.
00:482015, we had already realized that the climate crisis is the gravest danger mankind has ever faced.
00:57It was already clear to us, 2015.
01:00In fact, it was very clear even before 2015.
01:03So, 2015, we set a target for ourselves.
01:07We said we have to reduce our carbon emissions by 43% before 2030.
01:18And we have to come to a net zero state by 2050.
01:24And if this we successfully do, only then we will be able to limit the global average temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees.
01:33So, there were two things.
01:34One, the objective.
01:35The objective was to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees centigrade above normal.
01:42This was the objective.
01:44And the means was the reduction of emissions compared to the 2019 levels.
01:49That was the means.
01:51Now, if the means has not been taken care of, obviously the objective is not going to be met.
01:56The objective has not been met.
01:58The 1.5 degree temperature rise that we wanted to desperately avoid, that is already upon us.
02:05We, in 2025, are already seeing global average temperatures above normal by not only 1.5, but by 1.75 degrees centigrade also.
02:17Right?
02:18So, that threshold has been breached.
02:20And it's a great, great warning sign.
02:23Reason?
02:24We did not dream up the figure of 1.5 degrees.
02:27There was solid hard scientific logic to it.
02:31Just after 1.5 degrees rise above the normal, feedback loops, they set in.
02:40And what is the feedback loop?
02:42It is a self-sustaining, self-reinforcing cycle of carbon emissions.
02:49That does not require any human intervention, any human mistake for it to sustain.
02:58Which means that once a feedback cycle starts, after that, even if you drop your emissions to zero, the cycle would still continue to operate and roll on.
03:09And so, more and more carbon will be added to the atmosphere, even if you do nothing at all.
03:16And the more the carbon gets added to the atmosphere, the more that cycle will intensify.
03:20It's a feedback cycle.
03:21So, A does B, and B in its turn reinforces A.
03:26A causes B, B strengthens A.
03:29The more A is strengthened, the more it causes B.
03:32The more B is caused, the more it reinforces A.
03:35That's called a feedback cycle.
03:37And those feedback cycles have already started.
03:40Already started.
03:41And we are nowhere serious about the whole thing.
03:44The proof is that by 2030, we wanted 43% reductions.
03:48And we are close to having 0% reductions.
03:51If we accurately measure where we have reached, it would be plus minus 2%.
03:59Either emissions have reduced by 2% or maybe they have actually increased by 2%.
04:06Both the situations are close to zero.
04:08We have done nothing at all.
04:10We stand exactly where we stood in 2019.
04:13And the temperatures, they just keep increasing every passing year.
04:18And that spells catastrophe.
04:21This is the end.
04:23And this is not being highlighted by any party whatsoever.
04:26It is as if mankind has collectively taken a suicidal decision.
04:31We are saying this is upon us and we don't want to do anything about us.
04:35Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement.
04:38And this is the second time he is doing that.
04:40Not only has he pulled out of the Paris Accord,
04:43he is saying we will dig deeper to get gas, oil,
04:47and we will not just use it, we will actually export it.
04:51We will even excavate Alaska beneath all the sheets of ice.
05:01If there is oil or gas to be found, we will dig it out.
05:05And that kind of mindset is there.
05:08Environmental sciences, the climate crisis,
05:11these things are being expunged from the curricula of schools and colleges.
05:16And especially in the US, there is a clamp down.
05:20They don't want people to talk of it.
05:22They don't want this to get into the popular discourse.
05:26Conversations are being screened.
05:29Popular public conversations are being screened for climate.
05:33So how am I mistaken in thinking that we have actually decided,
05:40we have actually resigned and said that this is our fate
05:44and nothing can be done about it.
05:46But then it is not a question of our fate.
05:48It is a question of this planet.
05:50It is a question of the coming generations.
05:52It is also a question of the millions of other species
05:55for whom the planet is home.
05:58We don't monopolize this place, do we?
06:00So what right do we have to decide to just give up on this planet
06:05and then shoot ourselves all the way to Mars?
06:09That's what we seem to have decided.
06:11But what about the millions of innocent species
06:14who have done nothing to deserve extinction
06:17but are going extinct every day by the rate of dozens per day
06:21for no fault of theirs at all?
06:24So that's why this Operation 2030, to sensitize people to this.
06:29And when people are sensitized to this,
06:32then they'll be able to revisit their priorities.
06:35They'll be able to see that the kind of people they idolize and admire,
06:39they are the ones chiefly responsible for bringing this crisis upon us.
06:45A quarter of the total global emissions come from the top 1% rich population of this planet.
06:54Top 10% of the rich population contributes for more than 50% emissions.
07:02And in contrast, the bottom 50% contribute only around 5%.
07:06So this is a problem created by the rich but not paid for by the rich.
07:13They do it and we suffer.
07:15Because emissions don't really respect national boundaries.
07:21What you have emitted in the U.S. doesn't stay there.
07:24It affects the global climate.
07:26So what the U.S. does is paid for by India, by the poor in India.
07:31Climate injustice.
07:33But we are not talking of it.
07:35We are behaving as if everything is hunky-dory.
07:37It is not.
07:38We are in the most dangerous phase that history has ever known.
07:46Our three, four thousand year old recorded history has never seen such a dangerous phase.
07:54What can be more dangerous than getting obliterated altogether?
07:58We are not just going extinct.
08:01We are taking the entire planet along with us to destruction.
08:05Final destruction.
08:07Irreversible destruction.
08:08True.
08:10Later.
08:11Later.
08:12ppy Money.
08:13Peter M
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