Acharya Prashant asserts that current global crises, including climate change and mass extinction, are not caused by a lack of technology but by human greed and a lack of self-knowledge. He argues that technology cannot stop human violence, lust, or the excessive consumption that drives environmental destruction. He points out that the world's most educated and wealthy individuals are responsible for the highest carbon emissions, suggesting that modern education is incomplete and dangerous. He highlights that carbon dioxide levels have risen from 280 to 440 ppm within a single generation, a feat achieved by the educated, not the illiterate. He criticizes the education system for focusing entirely on external inquiry while completely neglecting self-inquiry. He questions why engineering and postgraduate programs do not include a single course on understanding the self, which he believes is the only solution to the world's problems. Acharya Prashant notes that we have entered the sixth mass extinction phase, with species disappearing at a rate a thousand times higher than the natural rate. He concludes that partial knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance, as our current form of 'progress' is leading the world toward destruction through overpopulation and unsustainable economic growth.
