Environmental activist Gopal D. Patel thinks the climate movement could learn a lot from one of the longest-standing social initiatives in human history: religion. Exploring three areas where frameworks from faith traditions could benefit the climate movement, Patel offers a playbook for discovering your big idea to build momentum towards powerful social change.
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1goldinga
November 13, 2023 at 4:13 pm
Hhahah my comment is immediately scrubbed.
El Artista en el Sueño Lucido
November 13, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Why
1goldinga
November 13, 2023 at 4:31 pm
@El Artista en el Sueño Lucido made mention of our current CO2 levels, what levels are optimal for plant life and what level Planta stop growing….we are 118ppm away from no plant growth while 382ppm away for the minimal range of optimal growth…was wondering what they were going to lower it to exactly
1goldinga
November 13, 2023 at 4:15 pm
The flood gates are open allready. You all can see all the messages you cant aee. Its easier when a video is firat posted. Censoring people like hot cakes
Dos
November 13, 2023 at 4:28 pm
The frame work
I would love to provided one day .
Is the shift of all past life to create a more welcoming one at the next moment which now everlasting
Douglas Schmidt
November 13, 2023 at 4:29 pm
The New Religion ®️
Gary Lee Sanchez Cuero
November 13, 2023 at 4:50 pm
I wouldn’t name the new religion, to me it is used to control and this is awakening us, remembering our connection as humans.
Daniel Olalekan
November 13, 2023 at 4:45 pm
One religion with absolute purpose. This will be difficult but it will be the biggest movement in history.
Łukasz Bogacz
November 13, 2023 at 5:35 pm
scariest cult to ever exist.
s0m3cunt
November 13, 2023 at 5:09 pm
Climate cultism is a religion.
Bread Fan
November 13, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Can someone please address the elephant in the room?
Faith is the enemy of the climate change effort. Dogma (political, economic, religious) and magical thinking is the bane of humanity.
Fundamentalist right wing Christianity is the main source of climate change denial in the west. It doesn’t matter whether the motto is “God won’t let anything happen to us”, “It’s pointless, since Jesus is coming soon and the world will end” or “Climate change is a Chinese/Jewish/elite/etc conspiracy”, we know that the “faithful” are mostly behind it in all cases. You may argue that short-sighted nationalism is the main factor, only to realize that the “faithful” are mostly behind that too. And, by the way, in case you think this is an attack on Christianity, the Mulsim world isn’t better. See for yourself who advocates for and who opposes efforts to stop carbon emmissions in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
This speaker, as charming and likeable as he may be, is not helping. The world needs less pandering to “spirituality”; it needs a concentrated effort to battle scientific illiteracy and those who enable it in favor of their belief systems. It needs less faith and more facts, we need to stop promoting magical thinking and start promoting critical thinging. Anthropogenic climate change isn’t just a scientific fact, it’s a global threat that requires immediate and decisive action, not praying, token gestures and wishful thinking.
A Nels
November 13, 2023 at 5:46 pm
I appreciate listening and watching this video!!! What he stated is so very true!!! ❤❤❤❤
Liberty Wraith
November 13, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Clmate change is just another BS RACKETT by the NWO
Bryan Schaeber
November 13, 2023 at 6:07 pm
Religion isnt real. None of them are. Its all fake. Its all just stories. Legends. Fairytales.
Simone
November 13, 2023 at 7:07 pm
How words mislead people..
Case Erickson
November 13, 2023 at 7:34 pm
our physical world is an outpouring of our spiritual/internal state.
External sickness (climate change etc) is an indicator of internal sickness (greed, scarcity, FEAR).
The answer? Ubuntu + Namaste
The Great I AM
November 13, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Over 10,000 scientist came out and said climate change is a hoax.
Billy The Kid
November 13, 2023 at 7:54 pm
Let’s examine the climate, there has been no increase in hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves, increased surface temperatures, Arctic melting, or Antarctic melting. There is nothing spiritual about it, there is no “Climate Crisis”
Adigerla Prasad
November 13, 2023 at 9:03 pm
👌👌👌🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳💐
Divyesh Bhattacharya
November 13, 2023 at 11:56 pm
That ‘namasker’ at the end defines the entire speech. Truly wonderful. One small aspect however – spiritualism is also the ability one attains that helps to appreciate that each component on this earth has a ‘quality’ and this knowledge almost immediately makes the heart brim with love and care for each component on this 🌍. That way a mind is trained and that way the environment is embraced as an extension of our being and every human begins to relate to the fact that each one of us are a unit of the consistent whole. That perhaps is what spiritualism will help mankind to get the ‘skin’ to feel the flaura and fauna. God or religion may be detrimental in some way. Spiritualism is however safe to get trained in. ❤
आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes
November 14, 2023 at 6:29 pm
Borderline “cultural appropriation” Even the Devanagari script-representation “Sangha” is incorrect. –> SanDHah’. Mother earth may be called Vasundhara/ Srishti, not “bhoomi”. And who would malign Ganga by “GarnJees”? The talk is mostly self-affirmation, and very little action. Superficialism at its best.
Rick Lambert
November 14, 2023 at 1:38 am
Spiritualism and materialism are both parts of the veil. We are energy beings, being bamboozled by the psychopath billionaire playboy club overlords.
MikeFromOz
November 14, 2023 at 6:10 am
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
scribbler60
November 14, 2023 at 6:17 am
It is truly unfortunate that pointing out the most obvious problem with “spirituality” is immediately deleted.
All ideas should be open to challenge. All dogmas, including both spirituality and materialism, should be tempered through the heat of criticism.
Instead, the well-founded criticisms get arbitrarily deleted, so readers are denied the opportunity to make considered choices.
That is very disheartening. 💔
YDKY
November 14, 2023 at 8:20 am
*Religion or spirituality has no place in science*
Cereal Guy
November 14, 2023 at 9:39 am
Science and religion can coexist as they address different aspects of human experience. Science explains the world through observationwhile religion explores transcendent questions and moral values, providing a more holistic understanding when considered in their respective contexts
Juan Carlos Loayza L.
November 15, 2023 at 7:28 am
Religion no, but spirituality yes hahaha please keep learning you’ll discovery amazing things
Fidel-Dad of Justin🦨
November 14, 2023 at 9:16 am
Tame Fafda Khaou che ?
Christian Soldier
November 14, 2023 at 10:47 am
Hey would be right if God didn’t exist…
Norman Lévesque
November 14, 2023 at 12:24 pm
Gopal Go! Gopal Go! He demonstrates how religions are so important because their specialty is conveying a world view, and in most cases, motivate to care for the environnement. Good job!
Whatitduz 23
November 15, 2023 at 7:48 am
How nice it must be to be so dissociated from a working class society and a real job
I P
November 15, 2023 at 6:59 pm
Those that laugh at vedic wisdom are the joke.
Chris Martin
November 15, 2023 at 9:32 pm
Notice how its “climate change” now instead of warming. One day they say were all gonna freeze to death …. 30 years of mass flood predictions all have fallen short. On and on… pushing fear. One thing you never hear is the solution. Just remember with out diesel, no fancy iphones, no shoes, clothes, foreign cars and food doesn’t get delivered to grocery stores either. So toss out out your new iphone, imported coffee your sipping on and strip off everything you bought that was made overseas unless you come up with a solution please.