Family Planning is not your personal matter || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 It is not a time where you can gently nudge someone and feel that you have done your bit.

00:14 Because it is nobody's personal or private matter anymore.

00:19 A fellow reproducing blindly is a threat to the entire humanity.

00:24 How is his family his personal matter?

00:29 Tell me please, somebody sets a time bomb in his home, a huge time bomb that will bring

00:37 down the entire community.

00:40 Will you say it is his private matter because he is doing it within his home?

00:45 Tell me please, somebody sets a bomb inside his home and the bomb is powerful enough to

00:51 bring down the entire building, not merely his apartment.

00:57 Will you say it is his private matter, how can I interfere?

00:59 These are personal choices, we have to respect personal choices.

01:03 These are not personal choices anymore.

01:06 If you are reproducing, you are bringing down the entire humanity.

01:12 So you have to be more than gentle now.

01:17 Are you getting it?

01:19 And that does not mean cruelty, that means more compassion.

01:24 More energetic action coming from deeper compassion and deeper sense of responsibility.

01:34 You will have to give up the notion that these are first of all personal choices.

01:38 No, not personal choices.

01:40 What you are doing has an effect on me.

01:43 How is it your personal matter?

01:55 Regarding the population, generally when on the streets when I see women begging with

02:01 their children or on the streets I see people, I get really angry that how can they have

02:08 kids being in the position they are in?

02:11 One is they have not figured out a way for themselves.

02:14 I understand that it is just by chance that the situations that we are born in, the kind

02:20 of resources we have, it is just a genetic chance and I understand that but I really

02:25 get angry when I see that very poor people who are not even able to fend for themselves

02:31 are having kids and then they just use them as tools further to beg.

02:36 So how do we go about dealing with this?

02:41 You are looking in not exactly the right direction.

02:45 That kid that you see begging on the street will have a far smaller carbon footprint throughout

02:52 his life even if there are five such kids in that beggar family.

02:57 Obviously that beggar family must not have five such kids.

03:01 But the reasons for not having kids must be social and economic.

03:09 By having five kids, the beggar family is not really causing much harm to the climate

03:15 because their consumption levels are extremely low.

03:19 Wait, wait, their numbers do not matter.

03:24 India has 1.4 billion people.

03:26 India's carbon footprint is very small compared to that of the US.

03:30 The numbers right now don't matter that much.

03:34 Compared to this, the one or two kids that an affluent family has are a far bigger problem.

03:45 Think of their carbon footprint.

03:47 [Music]

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