issue.

or a point of no return in chemical pollution, which is the number two problem we are facing.

We are literally marinating the earth with chemical pollution.

It's like poisoning our own home.

So poisoning our food.

We are poisoning everything around us by pouring 220 billion tons of chemical waste into the environment every year.

That's the equivalent of 30 elephants per person per year.

Silesh, what are your thoughts just before we close out on the environmental movement? Where is it at the moment? I guess it's being pushed down the agenda, right? Because of AI is taking a lot of the attention away from it.

For whom?

For people, because they're not going to get sicker and sicker every day.

So think about milk.

Milk is to me one of the most unnatural foods we eat.

No other mammal goes and drinks the milk of another mammal beyond infancy.

I mean, we don't even drink the milk of our own mother beyond infancy, right? So no other mammal does this.

Why are we doing it? Is this because we are incredibly clever as a species about nutrition? Or is it because we are incredibly gullible as a species and we have been deceived by the industry into consuming this? It is clearly the latter.

Yeah, even people who cannot completely quit, even if they reduce their consumption, every bit counts.

And so it begs the question, if we went back to our more natural state of being, would we be restorers of everything and far less exploitative? Or would we find a way to ruin that as well the way we have before?

What I have deduced is that we have created an operating system for human civilization And we have added patches to it and, you know, little tiny upgrades.

But it's mainly about extracting from the planet.

Extract as much as you can.

Grow the economy endlessly.

You know, these are all prescriptions that we are given that we are told is going to lead to prosperity for you.

And we know, you know, heart to heart is not true.

Interesting.

We are, we're cleaning up the cooling.

So effectively, we're accelerating the warming.

So what's gonna happen now? It's already started.

What's gonna happen is that the cooling emissions, which have been in the atmosphere since we started burning fossil fuels, are dropping dramatically.

But the warming emissions are still there.

So what's gonna happen is that global warming will and is accelerating.

And Dr. Rao, do you want to add anything?

Yeah, I wanted to speak a bit about how the academic institutions are all coming around.

to acknowledging what is going on.

Because as part of the Guide to Planet B, I have listed like seven foundational myths in the current system.

A myth is a lie wrapped in a truth.

So there are seven foundational myths.

So, you know, including the protein myth, the calcium myth, the myth of human supremacy and all that, right? So there are seven of them.

Thank you.

eliminate hunger and malnutrition worldwide improve human health support local food systems strengthen community accelerate the plant-based transition and restore planetary health wow dr rao tell us how are you going to achieve all this sir

if this is the food system transformation You know, to me, any system is based on an objective function, you know, constraint set.

So I sort of analyzed it as an engineer would.

And I said, the current food system is not designed to nourish people.

So this is why even people who are wealthy, who don't have food insecurity, are not eating the right foods.

and they're getting sick.

So it's evidenced in the amount of sickness that's going on in society.

just one

See, aerosols last only a short time, but the carbon dioxide lasts a long time in the atmosphere.

Therefore, if we reduce the aerosols like we're doing, we reduce the aerosols, we're now exposing all of the carbon dioxide warming.

So this is, I'll get to that in a minute.

So the data, as I alluded to before, the data that this study, this work is based on is the global carbon budget.

It's published record estimates of gross and net land carbon.

In other words, up until now, we've been taking the net emissions from deforestation, whereas fossil fuels are accounting for the gross emissions.