One of the most important concerns of our day is climate change. Ever since the Earth's formation thousands of years ago, the climate has been changing. Natural causes have been the origin of these alterations up until recently. Volcanic eruptions, modifications to the Earth's orbit, and changes in the crust of the Earth are examples of natural factors that affect the climate. Based on several lines of evidence, it is now clearer than ever that people are altering Earth's climate. 

As a result of the warming of the atmosphere and seas, there has been an increase in sea level, a sharp loss in Arctic sea ice, and other climate-related changes. The effects of climate change on people and the environment are becoming more obvious. Unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, and flooding have caused billions in losses. In reaction to shifting temperatures and precipitation patterns, habitats are altering rapidly.

Changes in the sun's energy reaching Earth, variations in the reflectivity of Earth's atmosphere and surface, and variations in the greenhouse effect, which affects how much heat is retained by Earth's atmosphere, are just a few of the many natural and human factors that can alter Earth's energy balance and contribute to climate change.

The primary factor causing climate change is human activity. People change land from forests to farmland and consume fossil fuels. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, mankind has burnt an increasing amount of fossil fuels and converted enormous tracts of forest land to agricultural land. Changes in weather patterns, global warming, flora changes, precipitation, and archaeology have all been used as proof of climate change. These changes have had detrimental effects on the ecosystem, including drought, flooding, and ozone layer depletion. Along with major health issues that have resulted in fatalities, it has also reduced food production due to inconsistent rainy seasons and lost biodiversity. The use of renewable energy sources, reforestation, and strong government regulations on carbon dioxide emissions are among the steps that may be taken to manage it.

The major factor of climate change brought on by humans is carbon dioxide. Since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have contributed significantly to the atmospheric emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, altering the planet's climate. The earth's climate is also influenced by natural processes including variations in the sun's energy and volcanic eruptions. They do not, however, account for the warming that we have noticed over the last century.

In a variety of ways, forests are essential to the Earth's climate system. Most significantly for combating global climate change, they take atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into living biomass through photosynthesis. By absorbing carbon dioxide, the forest cover maintains the temperature of the air and the surface; if the forest cover were to decline, the temperature would rise noticeably. The net flow of carbon from the atmosphere into the forest is stopped when forests are burned or removed for purposes like farming, pasture, infrastructure, or urbanisation, both now and during the whole predicted future lifetime of the trees.

Desertification and land degradation have been made worse by changes in land use, land-use intensification, and climate change.

Due to the release of greenhouse gases, the land surface air temperature has increased by almost twice as much as the world average temperature since the pre-industrial era.

More than 30% of the world's end-use energy demand, which is mostly satisfied by fossil fuel sources, is used by the global agricultural food industry, which also accounts for around 22% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

The top five global dangers most likely to occur during the next ten years are climate change and related environmental challenges. Demands for action are becoming more urgent.

In such a case, Sadhguru acts. 'Talking, preaching, and campaigning time is finished,' declared Sadhguru, the founder of the Isha Foundation in Paris, France, bringing attention to the race against time to halt the desertification of the globe. We have reached a point where we can't accomplish anything if major policy changes don't occur across the board. He was alluding to the grave peril that is coming over the earth as a result of the overcropping of agricultural regions, which is causing productive soil to turn into sand internationally.

The international Save Soil from Extinction effort was started by Sadhguru last month. The Movement aims to mobilise and demonstrate global public support while empowering governments to start policy-driven initiatives to revive soil and stop future deterioration. Documents on 192 nations' recommended soil-friendly practises are part of the endeavour.

In response to the question of why he was risking his life for soil, Sadhguru replied in a recent interview, 'It is risky. Why am I doing this? Because I want all of you young people to understand if we don’t do this now, we will regret it seriously.” 

The Movement's main goal is to persuade governments to require that agricultural lands have a minimum of 3-6 percent organic content; otherwise, all agricultural soil will quickly deteriorate and turn into sand, where no food crops can grow, endangering the security of food and water on a global scale. According to Sadhguru, the Save Soil Movement has gotten 'a tremendous reception' locally.

Speaking about his 'save soil' movement, for which he recently finished a 100-day solo bike journey through 27 countries, spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev argued that one cannot discuss climate change without addressing soil since nearly 40% of climate change and global warming are caused by soil degradation.

He emphasised the importance of caring for the soil and the necessity of viewing it as 'a uniting element' when outlining the effects of the 'save soil' campaign.

'There are countless ways for us to split apart.

Unfortunately, because we are so highly advanced as a species, we are capable of wiping off the earth several times.

It is crucial to identify a common component when we have this power.

We all originate from soil, depend on it to survive, and at least some of us return to it once we pass away. The yogi emphasised that our only option is to realise that we are all made of dirt. We may either accept this fact now or after we are buried.