We need two things: less people and less consumption, and both of them together. Even if one of them is missing, you are gone.
The US has not too many people, just 32 crores are there, and yet they are the biggest carbon emitters in the world because they consume. On the other end is China. In China, the per capita consumption is 1/5th or 1/10th of the US, and yet they are number two on the carbon list. Why? Because they are just too many.
We need a situation where there are not more than two or three billion people in the world; that has been scientifically calculated to be the sustainable limit, and currently we are eight billion. We need to reduce it to two or three billion; that’s the first thing. Secondly, these two or three billion people have to be spiritual, so that they do not have a tendency to consume. Unless you are spiritual, you are bound to be living a consumption-centric life.
