Host:
Namaskar, Gurudev.
Guru Shyama Khyapa:
Namaskar.
Host:
First, I would like to ask our friends to subscribe to our channel, guptasadhaksyamakhapa.com. The more you subscribe, the more we can bring Gurudev's valuable videos to you. Today, we have Dr. Sujit Kar with us; he is a meteorologist. I would like to ask him a few things about the current weather.
Guru Shyama Khyapa:
Yes, Sujit. Regarding the situation we are seeing right now—it's not exactly cold, yet it has become quite warm. During the day, there is significant sweating. When the sun is out, the heat is intense and it's hard to stay without a fan. But as soon as the sun sets, a cold breeze sets in. What is the reason for this, and how can people find relief from it? It would be good if you could explain.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
Well, as far as I feel, Nature is our Mother. That Mother is worshipped here, and she accepts the worship of the entire world. We worship that creative woman across the globe; we consider her the mother who creates.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
Since the arrival of humans on Earth, almost everything we have done has been against nature. Many years ago, the scientist Darwin spoke about the "survival of the fittest." Since then, in an attempt to prove themselves the fittest, humans have continuously torn nature apart.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
We take everything from nature—we take oxygen, we take light, we draw our life force from her—and yet, we have indiscriminately tortured and repeatedly destroyed nature. Today, we are facing climate change. People all over the world are running around in distress because of these changes. In reality, we are endangering our own existence.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
I am reminded of the famous poet's line: "Sitting at the mouth of hell, I laugh the laugh of a flower." We have essentially dug our own graves. At one point in Earth's history, an ice age occurred; we all know about the Jurassic era. During that time, dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth. The primary reason was global warming. At that time, many volcanoes erupted around the Pacific Ocean. Pollution spread, and eventually, an ice age descended, cooling the entire Earth. Creatures like dinosaurs and many other forms of life were lost.
Guru Shyama Khyapa:
So, why is this warming happening? What is the cause?
Dr. Sujit Kar:
I'm coming to that. The constant, indiscriminate destruction of the Earth has forced us to face this warming. Let me explain the reason. You all know that only green plants can produce oxygen; nothing else can. Similarly, only green plants can absorb carbon dioxide. Naturally, green plants are our greatest friends.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
Whenever we have tried to build or develop something, we have destroyed the greenery. We have built structures of brick and stone over it. We have raised the banner of "development," but that development is perhaps nothing more than a flag planted on our own graves.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
As a result, the density of ozone in the upper atmosphere is rapidly decreasing. The ozone layer is located about 50 to 60 kilometers above the Earth's surface. It absorbs the ultraviolet (UV) rays coming from the sun. It so happens that about 40% of the heat energy from the sun is contained within these UV rays. Previously, this energy did not reach the Earth. But since oxygen has decreased and the density of ozone in the upper atmosphere is falling, UV rays are entering the lower atmosphere at a high speed.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
On one hand, this is rapidly increasing the Earth's temperature and the temperature of the atmosphere. On the other hand, as UV rays descend into the lower atmosphere, they react with whatever oxygen is left there to create ozone gas, which stays trapped at our level. When we breathe, we pull this ozone gas into our respiratory systems, which is leading to a rapid spread of cancer. Organs are failing, and people are becoming sickly.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
Look at it today—it's not just air pollution. We have water pollution, soil pollution, and our very methods of development are repeatedly torturing Mother Earth, leaving her exhausted and depleted.
Guru Shyama Khyapa:
This "pollution" is even being seen within human nature now. Everything is affected.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
Exactly. If nature is disturbed, it will reflect in human character. Not just humans, but all animals and even plants. You won't see flowers blooming properly anymore. Fruits are falling off before they ripen. Most importantly—and this message must reach people—humans are currently the most advanced species on Earth. Yet, every time an ice age has ended in the past, it was the most advanced species that disappeared first. Therefore, in this progression toward the destruction of the Earth, humans will be the first to go.
Guru Shyama Khyapa:
Are you saying that an ice age has arrived?
Dr. Sujit Kar:
Well, what I mean by an ice age is this: as climate change continues, sea levels are rising. The ice in the polar and mountain regions is melting. Eventually, this warming will trigger a rapid cooling. The rate of heat radiation from the Earth's surface will become so fast that the surface will suddenly begin to cool.
Dr. Sujit Kar:
Even now, in cold and temperate countries where the land used to be covered in snow for three to four months a year, it is now covered for five to six months. An ice age never arrives overnight. It advances slowly, step by step, until one day it covers vast regions in snow. At that point, the life forms currently within our ecosystem will gradually disappear from the Earth. This is the ultimate end we are moving toward.
Guru Shyama Khyapa:
Perhaps humans... [Audio cuts off]