Climate Change
On the global crisis of population, consumption and climate || Bengaluru (2019)
Questioner (Q): I am concerned about what will happen to me when I grow old. There are retirement homes one can resort to, but that is not a viable option to everybody. My mother, for example, got very sick when she got old, and if we had not been there for her, she would have faced a lot of hardships.
Acharya Prashant (AP): Are you like your mother?
Q: No.
AP: Then why are you comparing? Your mother paid for a dependent life. Do you first of all want to be dependent?
Q: No.
AP: Then why are you weaving stories?
Q: But my father, he was…
AP: He too would have been dependent. Why do you want to be dependent in the first place?
