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00:00 Bringing a kid in this kind of a world where there is so much mental stress, so much of
00:07 this happening.
00:08 So I wanted to get your sense because there is also this constant thing of us, human race
00:13 also surviving.
00:15 If we don't procreate, how are we going to survive?
00:17 So many of these things that happen.
00:20 Just today, just today, just today, if you look at the newspapers, China, she's in pink.
00:27 Everybody says China needs more kids.
00:30 So we are going to tweak with policies so that China has more kids.
00:34 Otherwise, it's going to interfere with economic growth.
00:38 We need more hands, more workers, more young people.
00:40 And if we don't have kids, how will we have all of that?
00:43 So you see, I used to have this position till around four or five years back.
00:51 Kindly desist from having any kids at all.
00:55 It says that we want people to be cooperative and be in public life.
00:59 I have learned that if we take extreme positions, what we get is extreme reactions.
01:06 The blowback is not useful at all.
01:10 So if you tell people that if you want to be on the right side of climate activism,
01:16 then you must not have any kids.
01:19 Then they just drift away from all climate discussions altogether.
01:26 They say if we get into it, we'll be prohibited from having kids.
01:30 So better say have one kid.
01:32 That's okay.
01:33 That's far.
01:34 Because even having one kid would mean, effectively would mean population decline.
01:39 If a man and a woman have just one kid, that is largely okay.
01:46 If you have no kids, obviously that's wonderful.
01:49 But that's a personal thing, a very, very intimate thing, and not an advice one can
01:54 dispense.
01:56 I cannot tell my neighbors not to have any kids.
01:59 But I can advise them not to have too many of them.
02:02 Stop at one.
02:03 Please stop at one.
02:04 And if you are too crazy about having kids, all right, at the cost of feeling guilty and
02:10 feeling guilty your entire life, go for two.
02:15 I do not want anybody to have two kids.
02:19 Nobody should have two kids.
02:21 But when I say you may have two kids, it is to bring in line those people who plan to
02:26 have five.
02:29 Because there are people who think that unless they have a full nest, life is not worth living.
02:34 And the fullness to me to them means lots of cars, lots of furniture, and lots of kids
02:40 and lots of zeros in their bank balance, you know, more is better, more is better, just
02:44 have more, more, more, the same lack of philosophical depth.
02:50 So just have one kid.
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