The Earth cannot afford even one more human being

Questioner: What kind of a change our education system needs to have so that our coming generations can live together in peace and fulfillment?

Acharya Prashant: Why? Why must you think about the coming generations? Is this not the language of the old matriarch, who first of all ensures that the women in the family keep giving birth, that the cycle of lust, pregnancy and procreation continues?

I would have loved it had you asked something about yourself. But tonight, I see that ‘I’ is present only once in your entire statement; you are talking in the language of ‘we’. I would have loved it had you asked something about yourself. I would have accepted it had you asked something about others; you want to serve the other, you want to liberate the other in your compassion, that is nice. But you have neither asked about yourself nor have you asked about the other; you have rather asked about the coming generations of kids. And if you are so bothered about the coming generations of kids, then the first thing you would ensure is that kids keep coming. Now you will have a quarrel with me.

We were in Bhopal yesterday, you know; the camp just concluded. They have created a place not far from the city where they have lions and leopards and tigers all exhibited. And then I started reading about the conditions of these animals. Their numbers are rapidly falling; it is almost as if tomorrow they would be extinct. And in the place I am mentioning, I found tigers, bears, leopards, but no lions. So, I just started reading a bit on lions, and I discovered that in India lions are now found only in Gujarat and Gir, and that in the last two years itself India has lost close to twenty percent of its total lion population. You know why the lions are disappearing? Because people are having kids.