00:00 You must be 18, 20, 25 something, right?
00:06 Now, next 5 or 10 years, what is the picture that your parents envisage for you?
00:14 What does that mean settled?
00:18 If I ask your parents, paint me a picture of your kid 10 years from today, what will
00:27 that picture consist of?
00:31 Show me the elements in the picture, please, quickly, and you will understand climate crisis.
00:38 Which means consumption and what will that picture consist of?
00:46 Come on.
00:48 Yes, and?
00:50 And?
00:51 So, that's what is wanted from your life that you produce more bodies to consume and those
01:01 bodies should consume per capita more than what you currently do.
01:06 Please understand what that means.
01:10 One should become three.
01:13 On one hand, one is becoming three.
01:15 On the other hand, today, this one is consuming, let's say, 10 units of something, let's say
01:20 10 units of electricity or coal.
01:25 Emissions are proportional to your consumption.
01:26 Do you understand that?
01:27 Irrespective of the technology involved, I understand that greener technologies can reduce
01:35 per capita consumption, but still, we still do not have technologies that reduce emissions
01:43 by a factor of 4 or 5 or 6.
01:45 That doesn't happen.
01:46 The reduction happens in percentage terms, 5 percentage, 10 percent, that kind of reduction.
01:54 So there is this one person who consumes 10 units today.
01:58 What's his dream?
01:59 Tell me of your dreams.
02:01 If you consume 10 units of something today, your dream is to consume at least 100 units
02:07 tomorrow.
02:08 Now, even if you involve green technology in between, what will the poor technology
02:14 do?
02:15 The technology can mean that the reduction comes by 10, 20, 30 percent, 40 percent.
02:22 But you want to increase your consumption 10 times, that is 1000 percent.
02:27 Now, in front of this 1000 percent, what can a technology driven 30, 40 percent reduction
02:34 do?
02:35 So first of all, you want to raise your consumption level from 10 to 1000, because that's what
02:39 means progress and happiness to you, right?
02:43 How do you determine that a person is successful?
02:45 He's consuming more.
02:48 That's the definition of success, right?
02:49 Do you see that definition of success is what has become the climate crisis.
02:55 As long as our happiness means consumption, you will have climate crisis and this climate
03:01 crisis is the end of the world.
03:06 Not only this one person is targeting to increase his consumption from 10 to 100 units or 1000
03:12 units, he is also aiming to produce three kids and all three of them, each of them will
03:20 consume 100 units, right?
03:23 So what is the total consumption after 10 years?
03:27 400 units.
03:28 What is the consumption today?
03:30 10.
03:32 So from 10, your dream is to raise consumption to 400 units and the emission, the carbon
03:38 emission will proportionately increase.
03:41 Correct?
03:42 So it's our dreams that have become the curse of this planet.
03:48 Unfortunately we live for our dreams.
03:51 Unfortunately we are produced to fulfill dreams.
03:54 If you do not live by these dreams, even your society and your family will not spare you.
04:01 You tell them that if I do all these things, then I am really literally destroying the
04:06 earth.
04:07 Still they would not listen.
04:08 They will say no, no, no, but you should, you should, please, please do that.
04:14 And anyway what can you do by fighting as a lone wolf, a solitary warrior?
04:23 Even if you do not consume, even if you do not proliferate, still everybody else is doing
04:28 the same thing.
04:30 See your cousin Dhanno, she just gave birth to her fourth one.
04:36 You can at least have three.
04:42 That's what is killing the planet.
04:45 And any numbers of summits or conferences or declarations or agreements are not going
04:51 to help.
04:52 All that is simply eye wash.
04:55 We are fooling ourselves.
04:59 If you do not challenge the very philosophy, it's a very pedestrian philosophy, it's a
05:04 very foolish philosophy, it's not a philosophy worth the name philosophy, yet it is a philosophy
05:11 the entire population of the world lives by.
05:15 That philosophy is eat more, eat more, have more and you are successful.
05:22 The purpose of life is consumption.
05:24 Be happy, consume more, be happy.
05:26 Just as our friend was asking, what's the problem?
05:32 If I consume and be happy, what's the problem if I have been given fake dreams but that
05:37 makes me happy?
05:38 This is the problem.
05:39 You are solidly into the sixth mass extinction phase.
05:46 We are getting killed and nobody is talking about it.
05:50 The entire planet is getting killed for good.
05:55 For millions of years to come, there would be nothing but barrenness and nobody wants
06:00 to talk about it.
06:01 Because if you talk about it, then your dreams will go unfulfilled.
06:05 And our dreams, our intoxications, they are so dear to us that we are prepared to destroy
06:11 this planet.
06:12 For the next millions of years, there will be nobody and we don't bother.
06:15 Thank you.
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