Ghaziabad, May 18 -- In a searing indictment of the global community's failure to confront the climate emergency, renowned philosopher and author Acharya Prashant has warned that humanity has already crossed a critical threshold in global warming. Launching Operation 2030, he called for urgent public sensitisation, declaring that "we are in the most dangerous phase that history has ever known."

"We have to start with the ground reality," he said, referencing the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which set a goal to reduce global emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 and achieve net-zero by 2050. "The 1.5 degree temperature rise that we wanted to desperately avoid, that is already upon us... We in 2025 are already see...