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India Gazette
05-06-2025
- General
- India Gazette
Acharya Prashant honoured with 'Most Impactful Environmentalist' award on World Environment Day, calls for inner revolution to tackle climate collapse
Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 5 (ANI): On World Environment Day, June 5, the Green Society of India honoured world-renowned philosopher and author Acharya Prashant with the prestigious 'Most Impactful Environmentalist ' award. Acharya Prashant has been leading a nationwide movement instrumental in integrating spiritual clarity with environmental awareness. The society bestowed him with an award for guiding millions of individuals towards sustainable living. Accepting the honour, Acharya Prashant delivered a powerful address, 'The climate crisis is not just outside, it's inside. The glaciers are melting because our minds are burning with greed. Oceans are rising because our desires know no bounds. Before we can act responsibly, we must first think clearly. And that is where true environmentalism begins, not in policy, but in consciousness.' 'When we talk about the environment, we usually refer to forests, rivers, air, and wildlife. But do we ever ask what kind of people we are that we end up polluting rivers or depleting forests?' he questioned. 'Until we address the pollution within the inner chaos, violence, and apathy, how can any external action truly succeed?' Highlighting the anthropogenic roots of the climate crisis, Acharya Prashant critiqued the tendency to treat environmental issues as isolated, data-driven challenges. 'We talk about the Air Quality Index but never the 'Human Quality.' As if the fault lies in the air and not in us,' he remarked. He further underscored that much of the environmental concern expressed today stems from self-interest rather than genuine reverence for nature. 'If we were handed a new planet after destroying this one, most of us would forget about the environment instantly,' he said, drawing attention to the utilitarian mindset that dominates environmental action. In response to the growing climate emergency, Acharya Prashant has launched 'Operation 2030', a nationwide initiative to awaken and educate India's youth. The initiative is aligned with the IPCC-supported UN climate target of keeping the temperature rise to 1.5C over pre-industrial levels by 2030. It aims to create a new type of leader based on ecological awareness, inner courage, and a profound sense of collective responsibility. Acharya Prashant shines because he can bridge the timeless Vedantic message to the most pressing ecological crisis of our times. Central to his ecological outreach is his Bhagavad Gita Teaching Program, which has now engaged over 100,000 participants and recently conducted what is regarded as the world's largest online Gita-based spiritual examination. Acharya Prashant's teachings integrate orthodox Vedantic traditions with Buddhism, existentialism, and Western philosophical thought, influencing thinkers and students at top global institutions such as UC Berkeley, Bard College, IITs, IIMs, IISc, and AIIMS. Concluding his address, Acharya Prashant offered a stern but inspiring call: 'We are not running out of time, we've already run out. 2030 is no longer a policy target; it is a planetary lifeline. To win this race against time, we need a million mutinies in favour of the planet, mutinies in how we think, consume, and live. In homes, classrooms, offices, and within ourselves, change must erupt. The only hope now is an inner revolution led by aware, courageous individuals who refuse to be part of the problem. Nobody is going to come to save the planet. It starts with you.' As the world celebrates another Environment Day, Acharya Prashant's voice cuts through the rhetoric, reminding us that the path to ecological healing begins with inner awakening, and the time to walk it is now. (ANI)
India Gazette
25-05-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
"Climate crisis results from mankind's primitive tendency to consume": Acharya Prashant pushes for solutions
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Acharya Prashant, a philosopher and spiritual teacher, explores the problem of human consumption amid the ongoing global climate crisis in his new feature piece published by The Sunday Guardian, where he argues that humanity faces an unprecedented crisis, which he labels as 'the sixth mass extinction', driven by human actions and 'mankind's primitive tendency to consume.' He explains that Operation 2030 is an emergency call to raise awareness about the climate crisis and the urgent need to address it. His central argument is that true climate transformation can only begin when material excess is replaced with inner wisdom. In his column with Sunday Guardian, Acharya Prashant wrote that the PrashantAdvait Foundation has initiated a campaign by the name of 'Operation 2030', where the understanding is that the climate crisis wasn't merely a political or technological problem, but stems from a deeper psychological tendency toward excessive consumption and a flawed philosophy of happiness based on material excess. 'We at the Foundation have been of the realised view that the Climate crisis cannot have a purely political or technological solution. The Climate crisis is a situation resulting from mankind's primitive tendency to consume, which reflects in population explosion, per capita consumption, and the global pop philosophy of maximising happiness through consumption. The crisis is therefore firstly inside us,' Acharya Prashant writes in his feature published by the Sunday Guardian. He explains that Operation 2030 remains an emergency call to raise awareness about the climate crisis and the need to address it. Acharya Prashant's main argument remains that true climate transformation begins when we replace material excess with inner wisdom. In his Sunday Guardian column, the author states that Operation 2030 urges inner transformation, climate accountability, and citizen-led change to combat ecological collapse. Focusing on the motives of Operation 2030, Acharya Prashant argues that the campaign is a call to address the long-standing urgency of the climate crisis. 'It was a collective promise made during the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015, to protect the future. But now, in 2025, that promise lies broken. The 1.5C threshold we aimed to avoid until 2030 has already been breached -- with global temperatures now already exceeding 1.5C above normal. The alarm rang -- but we were too distracted to hear,' he writes in his feature published by the English daily, The Sunday Guardian. Calling this a 'premature breach', Acharya Prashant advocates the need to have such an operation in order to address the climate crisis. He advocates calling out elites, who he says are the 'real culprits', for leaving high carbon footprints. Operation 2030 supports public declarations of carbon emissions and collaboration with data-driven organisations for accountability, the author states in his column at The Sunday Guardian. In democratic societies, meaningful climate action requires citizen pressure, Acharya Prashant writes in his article, adding that Operation 2030 aims to make climate a political issue by empowering individuals, especially youth, since 'they are not just future victims but present agents of change.' (ANI)
