Acharya Prashant states that our happiness has consumed the Earth. The amount we consume is not something the Earth has to feed us, so we have consumed the Earth itself. And when we were not enough, we increased our numbers to 8 billion to consume the Earth. Still, our measure of happiness is the same: whether a child is born in the house or not. We do not understand that every child being born is born on the corpses of thousands of trees and thousands of animals. In today's time, non-violence is not about not eating meat. In today's time, non-violence is to understand that if you are producing a child, you are producing that child by killing thousands of animals. And you say, 'No sir, we don't eat chicken.' Every child that is born, behind it are burnt trees and slaughtered animals. Animals are not slaughtered because he will eat them; when there are no trees, where will the animals go? You might say, 'No sir, we will not cut trees.' Fine, if you don't cut trees, what will you eat? 'We will just eat bread and rice.' Where will that bread and rice be produced, son? In the field. Where will the field come from? Will you farm on the moon? Farming will happen only by cutting down the jungle. You don't understand this. Our happiness says that the house should be full, blossoming with joy, and the chirping of children should echo. And then, however many people are in the house, they should all consume to their heart's content. The measure of happiness is how many kilowatts each person is sucking up. Progress is measured this way. They say in India, the per capita electricity consumption is only this much, whereas in America, the per capita electricity consumption is so high, so look how backward India is. This very consumption of electricity has eaten us up. Where does electricity come from? It comes from burning coal. Even today, most of the electricity in the world comes from burning coal, and when coal burns, what will be released? Carbon dioxide. And all the things man wants to enjoy, what is required for their production? Energy. Energy means electricity. Man's biggest need at this time is energy. And energy will come from burning fossil fuels, where else will you get it from? People say, 'Sir, the car has become old, we will bring a new one.' The old cars were three, which drank more petrol. The new car drinks less petrol, but there are now thirty new cars. Now tell me, compared to before, will less or more carbon be emitted? We don't understand how deep the severity of the problem is. So when it comes to climate change, we bring up trivial solutions and make a mockery of the problem. Someone says, 'Look, we had a diesel car, we sold it and brought a hybrid or electric car. This is our contribution to the solution of this problem.' You are talking foolishly. What will an electric car run on? Electricity. Where will the electricity come from? From burning coal. What will happen with your electric car? Then, what is the electric car made of? Steel. Where has the steel come from? From coal. Who are you fooling? We are not stopping global warming with trees. A tree will take 10 years just to grow. It is said that if a tree lives for 40 years, it will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide. And one child produces 58 tons of carbon dioxide. How many trees will you plant? And people talk like this: recycle, buy a 5-star AC instead of a 3-star AC. All these things will reduce carbon a little, there is no doubt about it. But the bigger problem is that by doing all these small things, we will feel that we have atoned, that our duty is done. We will say, 'Look, we are responsible citizens. We use less plastic, we have planted four trees, we use a 5-star AC instead of a 3-star one, we have installed LED bulbs instead of filament bulbs, we use an electric car, and we have brought a cycle home, so for short distances, we use the cycle, we don't create smoke.' The work you are doing is like a drop in the ocean. The real work needed is to stop the consumerist mind and the consumerist conditioning. And even more than that, the work needed is to break this notion in man that it is very important to have offspring in the house. Until this notion of man is broken, and secondly, until the notion is removed from man's mind that the more one consumes, the happier one is, until then, understand that there is no possibility of this Earth surviving. In summary, the whole matter is spiritual. I see the solution to this on two levels. First, the most important level, is to remove the notion from man's mind that producing a child is a very big, valuable, respectable, necessary, and central thing. And the second thing is to remove the notion from man's mind that the success of life lies in the collection and consumption of objects. Until a person is taught that the solution to his inherent incompleteness cannot be found either by producing children or by consumption, that its solution is something else, until then, the person will keep seeking peace in the wrong place. When you are restless from within, you run towards consumption. And consumption does not bring peace. This is something that governments cannot explain to you, nor can it be explained at the level of social morality. This is something that only spirituality and spiritual scriptures can explain to you. That what you need in life will not be found by increasing your family, by gathering men and women, nor by collecting more clothes, more cars, and more money. It will be found somewhere else. And the day a person starts getting that right thing for which his incomplete self is actually yearning, that day why would he run in the direction of consumption?