The balance of earth’s systems which sustain life – oceans, temperatures, soil, forests, winds and air – is disrupted and we teeter on the brink of irreversible disaster. Malthus and his predictions of catastrophic depopulation through disease, conflict and hunger caused by human overreach were assumed to have been overcome by technology and human ingenuity. That he lives and thrives has been spelt out by voices difficult to deny that the path we are on is not sustainable.
We have an economic system which depends on financial markets to allocate social resources to profit seeking in the short term.
Ashok challenges that world and suggests an alternative where the highest wisdom is kindness and the highest purpose is to plant the seeds of a nobler, sustainable and happier world for those who come after.