Your Worth does not come from Bearing Babies or Breast-Feeding || AP Neem Candies
Acharya Prashant: You have said, “What kind of change our education system needs to have so that our coming generations live together in peace and fulfillment?” Live together with each other, right? You haven’t said they live together with animals. The trees, the rivers, the rabbits, and the lions. That you haven’t mentioned because that probably is not important to you. And you don’t appreciate that unless you put a stop to the coming generations, you will have no lions and no jungles and no rivers very soon.
Just an hour back I was reading that the Yamuna in Delhi is practically dead! If you look at its oxygen demand figures, you will realize that there is nothing in it to be called a river. Who did that—the fish, the turtles, the crocodiles? No. The massive generations coming one after the other. And grandmothers kept wishing and blessing that the brides were constantly pregnant. And Yamuna died!
If you want to teach, teach what I have just taught you. Teach the kids that this planet cannot tolerate even one more human being now! We are already eight billion. At the current rate, we are projected to be eleven billion by 2050. We cannot even tolerate 8.1 billion.
You do not merely want to have kids. You also want the kids to live happily, right? And happiness in common parlance means consumption. Even at the current rate of consumption, this entire planet is not sufficient to meet the needs of this population. You require multiple Earths. And this is at just the current rate of consumption, not the aspired rate of consumption. We all aspire to consume more and more, right? At the aspired rate of consumption, you will require a hundred Earths to fulfill the needs of these billions. From where will you get those hundred Earths?
