Full Video: Making life is better than making babies || Acharya Prashant, with XLRI (2021)
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00:00You cannot continue to be 8 billion, 10 billion, 12 billion, and then say, well, in the natural course of things, we are anyway going to stabilize at 12 billion.
00:12Even 8 billion is just too much. Just too much. It is too much by many times. 12 billion is unthinkable.
00:21So, what are we looking at? We are looking at a scenario where nations have the population of an India and the per capita consumption of a US.
00:32Now multiply these two and what do you get? Utter tragedy. Right?
00:37Neither are we seizing to have kids, nor are we realizing that the good life does not consist of multiplied consumption.