John Lamy: If you think about climate change and global warming, and you put on your big picture hat, what do you think are the root causes? You know, mankind is doing something to the planet right now. We’re putting out 59 gigatons a year or some number like that of CO2, but so that’s not a root cause, that’s something we’re doing.
Is it attitudinal? Is it economic? What in the humble opinion of Sandip are the root causes of global warming?
Sandip Lalli: Yeah, it’s a good question to look at. Because of the industrial revolution, and others, taking shape in different parts of the world and other hemispheres adopting at different phases, it really didn’t come to be an issue until it was at a critical point, right? Like the ozone layer – like let’s all rally to solve that because that’s eminent. And there’s been those kinds of pop-up points. But at this point, largely all of that has been economic and it continues to be economic.
And so I think that, if anyone wanted to say, was the root cause. But it’s also a means to an end in the standard of living and humanity. So trying to figure out the balance there is the challenge. But that root cause, that mentality – if you wanted to say it’s not economic, but it’s our entitlement to contribute and live as a just society, then perhaps that’s a root cause. That’s why it’s attitudinal and economic, and it makes it so challenging to address, and then to try to address it globally.
