Global Crisis of Population and Climate Change || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Is it not a sensible decision like looking at the condition of the country, the temperature

00:12is rising to move to a better country where population is lessened?

00:18Climate change doesn't differentiate between countries.

00:37Wherever you go, the battle has to be fought.

00:39You can fight it here, you can fight it there.

00:43If you think you can fight it better over there, then do shift.

00:49As far as I am concerned, I would want to be in the thick of the battle.

00:55I would want to fight where the problem really is.

00:59Why escape away to some land where people are already more aware, more responsible?

01:13The bulk of population growth in the coming few decades is going to come from countries

01:19like India.

01:22What would I do by preaching these things to the Japanese?

01:29Their population is already reducing, they will become extinct if I preach a little more to them.

01:43These things need to be drilled into Indians because this is the place from where most

01:52of the world's population growth is going to come.

01:59Sorry sir, look at the growth rates, what are you talking of?

02:26India is the third biggest emitter of carbon, you are probably talking of per capita emissions.

02:34Why talk of per capita thing?

02:39After China and the US, India stands at number three and in terms of yearly growth, India

02:47is number one.

02:55We all want progress, you know, and every bit of that which you call as progress is carbon emitting.

03:07Every bit of that which you call as the good life is carbon emitting.

03:19A fellow comes from a small town to live in Bangalore, his carbon footprint probably increases

03:24five times, but you call it progress, you call it urbanization.

03:35A fellow moves from a small house to a big house, his carbon footprint increases four times.

03:42But you say it's great.

03:46A fellow gets a higher paying job and gets two more air conditioners.

03:53He has done his share of damage to the earth, but he'll say this is progress.

04:07Progress itself is the problem.

04:15As long as there are so many people progressing, if you want to progress, then let there be

04:22a quarter of people that there are, then you can have all these progresses.

04:28But you cannot have the kind of per capita consumption of resources that probably the

04:37US currently has with the kind of population that India currently has.

04:45But that is what we want.

04:48We want the population of India to be multiplied by the per capita consumption of the US and

04:56that is catastrophic.

04:59If you want per capita consumption levels of the developed countries, then you reduce

05:07your population to the level of developed countries.

05:13You cannot have the population of India, but the per capita consumption of Germany.

05:18Unfortunately, that is what we want.

05:20What would happen in the old age?

05:22Now, we can say, you know, that we will be so capable that we will be able to see Yadavid

05:28Ashram.

05:29But practically, I see in my life that if my mother was there, she was sick now.

05:36And if we were not there, then she would have a problem.

05:41Are you like your mother?

05:42No.

05:43Then why are you comparing?

05:46Your mother paid for a dependent life.

05:56Do you first of all want to be dependent?

05:59Then why are you weaving stories?

06:02But my father, he was…

06:05He too would have been dependent.

06:06Why do you want to be dependent in the first place?

06:08He wasn't.

06:09He is not dependent.

06:10Then why does he need you?

06:11He needs doctors and nurses?

06:12Yes, but…

06:13Are you a doctor?

06:14No.

06:15Then what would you do?

06:17But he does not…

06:18Yeah, but then…

06:20Because he spent all the money on us, now he does not have that.

06:23Don't do that.

06:24Don't spend all the money on five kids.

06:29Keep something for yourself and your old age.

06:36In old age, you need medicine, not sons.

06:41And if you want a caretaker, hire a nurse.

06:44That's right, because we all are living outside.

06:48They both are living alone and they are living good life.

06:57How many sons anyway return from abroad to take care of their parents?

07:07Sitting in some native village in Uttar Pradesh, does that happen?

07:18And why do you need to drag your life till 95 years of age?

07:22If you find that you have turned debilitated at 80.

07:27Switch it off.

07:32Do you really need to continue living for 120 years?

07:38Live a rich, fulfilled life and when you find that you are on the verge of becoming dependent,

07:47then call it off.

07:55Not one hair in your head is grey and you are worrying about old age.

08:08Why must you turn so pathetically old in the first place?

08:13I am asking you.

08:15If you are healthy, then continue to live on, 90, 95, it's okay.

08:21Because you are still healthy and strong and on your own.

08:25But the day you find you are tied to the bed and dependent on others for every small thing,

08:35why do you still want to keep breathing?

08:43Call it a day, done, lived enough, lived richly.

08:50I can retire now, can't I?

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