Matthieu Ricard: How to let altruism be your guide

The video discusses the power of altruism in addressing personal, societal, and environmental challenges. It emphasizes the importance of fostering altruistic motivation over selfishness and highlights the need for sustainable growth within planetary boundaries. The speaker presents scientific evidence supporting altruism and its potential to reconcile economic, social, and environmental time scales. The video concludes with a call for cultural and individual change towards a more altruistic society, advocating for cooperation, caring economics, and sustainable harmony.

What is the relationship between motivation and the use of tools according to the text?

How has human impact on Earth changed since the Industrial and Technological Revolutions?

What are the implications of the melting glaciers mentioned in the text?

What are the three time scales that need to be reconciled according to the speaker?

What does the speaker suggest is necessary for a caring economics?

What role does cooperation play in the evolution of human relationships according to the text?

What is the significance of the 'banality of goodness' as discussed in the text?

What evidence does the speaker provide to support the existence of altruism?

How does the speaker differentiate between empathy and altruism?

In what ways can individual change contribute to a more altruistic society?