00:00What economic growth are we talking of being negligent of climate change?
00:06India is one of the countries that is going to be the hardest hit.
00:12Think of the farmer, think of the crop, think of the entire ecosystem.
00:16They are also dependent on the monsoons.
00:19And climate change is going to disrupt the rainfall patterns it already has.
00:24The rivers are not there, the rains are not there.
00:26Or there is just too much rain at the wrong place at the wrong time.
00:30People think that the economy can keep not just afloat but growing irrespective of climate change.
00:37And we have not yet addressed the medical costs.
00:40From lifestyle ailments like cancer, like heart disease, like kidney disease,
00:45to bacterial diseases like TB, to viral diseases,
00:49everything would be exacerbated by climate change.
00:53What economic growth are we talking of?
00:54Then again, there's one more that comes up is that the economic growth.
01:03Like then we, when we projected that, you know, we should minimize our desires as a result of self-awareness.
01:10Then the, then the question comes up as that, then we would be reducing the economic growth,
01:15which would probably hinder the lesser privileged or the less, you know, rich people in the society.
01:24But I mean, of course, the obvious answer is also that it is affecting them the highest, the climate injustice.
01:30But still, I mean, it's not willing to be accepted in that sense that this economic growth and...
01:36see, see, it's like this, if I address the fact that I have a flat tire,
01:45then I'll be delayed.
01:52My speed would be reduced.
01:54The question is, how far can you anyway go on a flat tire?
01:59We don't read these things, but you look at IPCCC reports and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
02:18They are very meticulous in, in their data collection and in their projection.
02:24India is one of the countries that is going to be the hardest hit even in economic terms.
02:32What economic growth are we talking of being negligent of climate change?
02:39Medical costs, costs to agriculture, costs to informal economy, costs to infrastructure,
02:48costs even in terms of your, your defense preparedness.
02:52We must read of these things in detail.
03:00We are not only the world's most populous country.
03:04We are also the country where there is the biggest informal sector
03:08and the biggest proportion of population dependent on agriculture and allied industries.
03:14What are going, what is going to happen to those crops standing under the sun?
03:23Think of the farmer, think of the crop, think of the entire ecosystem, think of the insect responsible for pollination.
03:33Would they survive?
03:37Would they survive?
03:41Think of the rivers, not only is our, is our big chunk of population dependent on agriculture,
03:49they are also dependent on the monsoons.
03:54Our crops do not get the support of irrigation.
04:06We depend on natural water, rivers and rains and tanks in South India.
04:12And climate change is going to disrupt the rainfall patterns it already has.
04:25How will there be crops at all?
04:27What economic growth are we talking of?
04:29There would be mass unrest.
04:31Can there be any economic activity when the entire population has gone turbulent?
04:39And there is mass civil unrest if it does not rain?
04:45The glaciers melt.
04:46When the glaciers melt, first of all it would flood.
04:50And after the floods, there would be an unending dryness.
04:54Because now the rivers can't flow.
04:57The glaciers that are the sources of rivers do not exist anymore.
05:00How will the rivers flow?
05:03The rivers are not there.
05:04The rains are not there.
05:06Or there is just too much rain at the wrong place at the wrong time.
05:10From where will the crops come?
05:14And if the crops are not there, what economy are we talking of?
05:1860% of the population will have nothing to feed itself.
05:27And if they have nothing to feed themselves, what will they do?
05:30They will rush towards other places.
05:33Now think of mass migration.
05:35Now think of unemployment.
05:38Now think of, not just mass migration.
05:41That is a very meek word.
05:43This is called total displacement of large chunks of populations.
05:47Does the northern parts of the country have a lot of industry?
06:04Does north India have industry?
06:07No.
06:07It depends mainly on agriculture.
06:11No river, no rain.
06:17What will those people do?
06:20The 70, 80 crores of them, where will they go?
06:22And they will be killing each other over water.
06:33Something as simple as water and food and grains.
06:36What economic growth are we talking of?
06:45Even manufacturing depends to a great extent upon natural produce.
06:53Textiles for example.
06:54Show me, first of all, the manufacturing sector in India is quite small.
07:07But even there, show me how many industries are totally insulated from climate change.
07:17Please show me.
07:24So it's not just that agriculture would be demolished.
07:29Even manufacturing.
07:30And services depend on the general population having some money to spend.
07:49Services cannot feed the service sector itself continuously, right?
07:53If the two other prominent sectors are going kaput, who will go and eat in a restaurant?
08:06Who will take a taxi?
08:12Who will hire a cook or a gardener?
08:16Who will travel to tourist places?
08:28So what will happen to the service industry?
08:32What economy are we talking of?
08:35People think that the economy can keep not just afloat, but growing irrespective of climate change.
08:41And we have not yet addressed the medical costs, sir.
08:44All kinds of diseases, multiply, proliferate, intensify, become more probable, under climate impact.
09:03You name it.
09:04From lifestyle ailments, like cancer, like heart disease, like kidney disease, to bacterial diseases like TB, to viral diseases, everything would be exacerbated by climate change.
09:25Think of a virus that is lying hidden beneath a thick ice sheet, or is lying hidden deeply below the soil, in permafrost.
09:41And as, as the ice melts, the virus would be exposed, and that virus was sleeping there since millions of years.
09:54Millions of years.
09:55And now it would be exposed.
09:59What's worse is that you do not have immunity against that virus, because this virus never came in contact with human beings, so human beings don't have immunity against that one.
10:08And that virus was happily sleeping beneath the ice, not that the ice has melted, the virus is out.
10:16Save yourself.
10:17We are talking of economic growth.
10:20What happened to economic growth during Covid?
10:22And thousands of viruses are lying dormant, in jungles, in caves, beneath ice sheets, below the soil, everywhere, those viruses are there and we are safe, because we don't come in contact with them, but now they will be released.
10:52We are out there for some师 and we are alimentary decades closer in time.
10:59Shall we?
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