Concept of Good life || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 The very concept of good life is a carbon intensive one.
00:03 The very concept of happiness is carbon intensive.
00:06 When you become richer, you typically become a meat eater.
00:09 Do you know how much does animal agriculture contribute to climate change?
00:13 Just as much as fossil fuels do.
00:16 Everything that makes you happy is actually something that is destroying the earth.
00:20 The saving grace is, as Indians, as middle class Indians,
00:24 you still are not in a position to consume too much.
00:26 Therefore, you are still not directly responsible for destroying the earth.
00:30 But there is an indirect culpability,
00:32 which is that you are following and admiring the ones who are in fact destroying the earth.
00:37 The one you follow on Instagram and the rising PPM levels are directly correlated.
00:43 Do you see all these things?
00:44 In general, they will appear different issues, not related, but they are very much related.
00:49 It's a sad commentary on our times that people who should be behind bars
00:53 are actually hemming top positions in industry, in government, everywhere.