Acharya Prashant responds to the idea that global problems stem from humanity's misguided search, which, if ended, would create an ideal world. He explains this using an analogy: imagine your lawn, and you insist that a lost ring is somewhere within it. You hold this belief because admitting the ring could be elsewhere would mean accepting the unknown, which is frightening. The lawn represents a small, known area. The thought that the ring is not in the lawn is terrifying because it would require a much greater effort to find it in the vast, unknown world. The fear of the unknown makes us cling to the belief that the ring must be in the known, familiar lawn. This insistence on searching in the wrong place has destructive consequences. To find the ring, you start digging up the lawn with shovels and hoes, which symbolizes the destruction of the environment. You are searching for something in nature that is not there; the ring represents Truth, and the lawn represents nature. When you don't find it, you might think the creatures in the lawn, like rabbits and squirrels, have eaten it. So, you start killing them, representing animal cruelty. You might even burn down all the trees and plants, thinking it will be easier to find the ring in the ashes, which symbolizes the actions leading to global warming. All this destruction is a result of maintaining the lie that what you seek is within the material world. We are willing to commit all sorts of destructive acts rather than accept one simple fact: the direction of our search is wrong because the center of our search is wrong. We refuse to admit that what we are looking for in nature is not to be found in nature. Truth is beyond nature; the ring is not in the lawn. The worldly person makes the same mistake, putting immense effort into finding satisfaction in the world, where it cannot be found. With a little less effort in the right direction, in spirituality, one could have attained liberation. But the ego is stubborn; it insists, "I have said the ring is in the lawn, so it must be in the lawn." The more it fails to find it, the more frustrated and violent it becomes, but it never accepts that the ring is not there. This is not true disappointment (nirasha); it is mere frustration (khisiyahat). True disappointment is the end of hope in the future, the realization that the path is wrong. This is what is needed. We are defeated by principle, not by chance, because our search is fundamentally flawed.