Posted on 12/07/2021 12:44:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants people to have more babies.
“There are not enough people,” Musk told a Wall Street Journal event Monday. “I can’t emphasize this enough, there are not enough people,” he said.
The tech billionaire said low and rapidly declining birth rates are “one of the biggest risks to civilization.”
His comments come as a growing number of people are deciding not to have children, citing concerns such as climate change and inequality.
Musk added that too many “good, smart people” think there are too many people in the world and that the population is growing out of control.
“It’s completely the opposite,” Musk said, urging people to look at the data. “If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words.”
When asked if this is why he has so many children, the father of six said he’s trying to set a good example, adding that he has to practice what he preaches.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note to investors in July that the “movement to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline.”
To support their argument, they pointed to surveys, academic research and Google data that shows climate change is directly and indirectly accelerating the decline in fertility rates.
UCLA researchers have shown that the number of births in the U.S. fell in the nine months following an extreme heat event, while a study of 18,000 couples in China last year showed that climate change, and particulate pollution specifically, was associated with a 20% increased likelihood of infertility.
Of course, if everyone stopped having children then humanity would eventually cease to exist. A fringe group of anti-natalists believe that’s exactly what should happen, but most people don’t share this view.
Indeed, many people see having children as a fundamental human right and one that can bring happiness and joy to families.
Needs to crumble some.
Unfortunately, those that keep breeding aren’t the ones that should be breeding.
Patriots , who will raise their children well, need to start getting it on...
He’s not wrong, but he’s also not providing a lot of solutions, esp. if he’s buying into the whole “inequity” bull. People aren’t having kids, because there’s a burden associated with it that’s turn it’s into a social stigma. 50 years of public schooling has succeeded.
Well, duh. Barbaric societies would crumble without children, too.
Import Philipinos. English speaking, love America, hard working, religious. Mexicans have all but one of those qualities. Guess which one?
Says a man married three times
What they really need is more young people and to have the older people die off earlier. It is like chickens, once they reach the non-productive age they are used for chicken noodles.
One wonders if the purpose of the vaccines is to achieve this goal.
Elon is the first American Billionaire who I know of to say this. Usually, the extreme rich are disdainful of the very idea that big families is what we need more of.
They bring up topics such as our ‘Ecological Footprint’ instead.
“Unfortunately, those that keep breeding aren’t the ones that should be breeding.”
Yep.. All the single white moms I see on FB, tattoos, piercings.. White trash who vote democrat.
People are going to start living much longer as well. I don’t think it means fewer people although that could also feed into his ecological agenda depending on how it plays out.
This might be out of line, proof in the putting, so to speak, but is he volunteering out any of his wives to help out with this?
Boycott is exactly right. The 3rd world unskilled masses are making lots of babies. The welfare state societies are making babies instead of getting skills and employment. There are lots of schools all over America. The children 👶 in those schools have got a chance to learn to be useful. Many of them are actually trying.
Religious
You are so right.
I really have no idea what that means.
Birth rates have plummeted in the third world.
How do they know climate change causes infertility? Maybe it's just too hot to...you know, the thing.
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