Acharya Prashant responds to a question about Elon Musk's idea of making humanity a multi-planetary species to save the small lamp of consciousness on Earth from being extinguished by calamities like climate change or war. He uses an analogy to critique this idea, comparing humanity to a drunkard who, after filling his own house with vomit, decides to buy a new house instead of cleaning the old one. The speaker argues that just as the drunkard will ruin the new house with his unchanged habits, humanity, with its destructive and consumerist consciousness, will only destroy other planets as well. The real solution is not to escape to another planet but to change our consciousness and clean up our own house, which is Earth. The speaker points out a contradiction: the same people who advocate for colonizing other planets also promote having more children, which exacerbates the very problems they claim to be escaping. He describes the bleakness of life on a planet like Mars, which lacks the biodiversity of Earth—no dogs, cats, or jungles. He humorously states that while one might have heard of 'jungle mein mangal' (celebration in the jungle), there are no jungles on Mars, so one's desires won't be fulfilled there. It is better to preserve the jungle here, as well-being (mangal) is found within the jungle (nature). Acharya Prashant distinguishes between science and technology, and between a scientist and a technologist or a trader of technology. He asserts that there has been no significant progress in basic science for the last 30-40 years; for instance, physics hasn't advanced much beyond where it was in the 1960s. What is often perceived as scientific progress is merely the commercialization of technology for consumption. He illustrates this by differentiating between the inventor of penicillin and a trader of antibiotics, Einstein and Elon Musk, the inventor of electricity and the owner of a power company, and the inventor of the computer and a seller of operating systems. He argues that we are not interested in knowledge (science) but in consumption (technology). He further explains that society empowers the wrong people. For example, the public makes someone a celebrity, and that celebrity then sells harmful products like gutka, leading to the death of the public's own children. The responsibility for this lies with the people who gave the celebrity their power. Similarly, the power to implement grand projects like space colonization is in the hands of those who are driven by commerce, not genuine scientific inquiry. He concludes by emphasizing that we are all interconnected on this planet, and if we must perish, we should perish together. The focus should be on saving Earth and all its species, not on a selfish escape that abandons our home and fellow beings.