Operation 2030: Confronting the climate crisis

Operation 2030 urges inner transformation, climate accountability, and citizen-led change to combat ecological collapse.

- ACHARYA PRASHANT

For the first time in recorded history, humanity faces an existential crisis entirely of its own making — the sixth mass extinction. Unlike earlier extinctions triggered by natural forces, this one is driven by human activity. What we urgently need is a clearer look at the mindset that has brought us here.

The signs are all around: soaring temperatures, collapsing ecosystems, vanishing species. Yet beyond these visible symptoms lie deeper dangers — our widespread unawareness and inaction in the face of an accelerating crisis.

How did we reach this point — and can we still turn back? These are not just scientific questions. They are human questions for all who breathe, live, and hope to leave behind a livable world.

This is the context in which I have committed myself to 'Operation 2030' recently launched by the Prashant Advait Foundation. 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 philosophy of maximizing happiness through consumption. The crisis is therefore firstly inside us. The Foundation has been striving since a decade to bring home this point to as many people and policymakers as possible through books, videos, wisdom literature and information campaigns. In this context, Operation 2030 is an emergency call to raise awareness about the climate crisis, its driving mechanisms, and our responsibilities in addressing it. Before meaningful change can occur, people must first grasp the full scale and root causes of the problem.

CONSUMPTION AND CARBON GO TOGETHER