{"id":1095808,"date":"2021-12-07T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095808"},"modified":"2021-12-07T18:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:29:56","slug":"elon-musk-warns-civilization-will-crumble-without-people-having-more-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-warns-civilization-will-crumble-without-people-having-more-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Warns Civilization Will \u2018Crumble\u2019 Without People Having More Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-warns-civilization-will-crumble-without-people-having-more-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk warned that civilization will \u201ccrumble\u201d unless people begin having more children.<\/p>\n<p>The comments were made during The Wall Street Journal\u2019s CEO Council Summit, during which the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive also slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s domestic spending agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,\u201d Musk explained on Monday evening, as recorded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/07\/elon-musk-says-civilization-will-crumble-without-more-births\/\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control,\u201d Musk continued. \u201cIt\u2019s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers \u2014 if people don\u2019t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown measures, American birth rates have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/us-birth-rate-falls-another-four-percent-to-lowest-level-in-nearly-a-century\">plummeted<\/a> to their lowest levels in nearly a century.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years,\u201d the Associated Press reported in May. \u201cThe rate dropped for moms of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group, falling to the lowest point since federal health officials started tracking it more than a century ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, down from about 3.75 million in 2019,\u201d the outlet continued. \u201cWhen births were booming in 2007, the U.S. recorded 4.3 million births.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/more-people-died-than-were-born-in-half-of-all-states-last-year\">exceeded<\/a> births in half of all states during 2020. Among the states with more deaths than births were Oregon, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Some northeastern states \u2014 including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts \u2014 saw deaths exceed births in both 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond falling marriage rates among younger Americans, anxiety over climate change may be leading to lower fertility. An August investor note from Morgan Stanley economists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/analysts-climate-alarmism-leading-people-to-have-fewer-children\">explained<\/a> that the \u201cmovement 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several thousand young people have signed the \u201cNo Future Pledge\u201d \u2014 which encourages the avoidance of reproduction in the interest of cutting carbon emissions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I want to have children more than almost anything, I am pledging not to, until the government takes the climate crisis seriously,\u201d wrote one organizer in an opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/25327\/no-future-no-children\/\">piece<\/a>. \u201cMy generation is facing a future of economic instability, food scarcity and extreme weather events. With climate change forcing millions of people out of their homes, poverty and violence will inevitably rise. Who wants their children to face the worst that humanity has to offer? We can turn the tide, but this requires political will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil our government begins to act like the grown-ups they\u2019re supposed to be, we will make uncomfortably grown-up decisions of our own and refuse to carry on as though all is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, China \u2014 which is facing significant demographic pressures due to its longstanding \u201cone-child policy\u201d \u2014 announced earlier this year that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/china-now-says-it-will-allow-families-to-have-three-children-amid-fears-of-population-crash\">permit<\/a> couples to have up to three children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement by the ruling Communist Party represents an acknowledgment that its limits on reproduction, the world\u2019s toughest, have jeopardized the country\u2019s future,\u201d The New York Times reported. \u201cThe labor pool is shrinking and the population is graying, threatening the industrial strategy that China has used for decades to emerge from poverty to become an economic powerhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk warned that civilization will \u201ccrumble\u201d unless people begin having more children.The comments were made during The Wall Street Journal\u2019s CEO Council Summit, during which the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive also slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s domestic spending agenda.\u201cI think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,\u201d Musk explained on Monday evening, as recorded by the New York Post.\u201cAnd yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control,\u201d Musk continued. \u201cIt\u2019s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers \u2014 if people don\u2019t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.\u201dFollowing COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown measures, American birth rates have plummeted to their lowest levels in nearly a century.\u00a0\u201cThe U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years,\u201d the Associated Press reported in May. \u201cThe rate dropped for moms of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group, falling to the lowest point since federal health officials started tracking it more than a century ago.\u201d\u201cAbout 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, down from about 3.75 million in 2019,\u201d the outlet continued. \u201cWhen births were booming in 2007, the U.S. recorded 4.3 million births.\u201dAccordingly, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that deaths exceeded births in half of all states during 2020. Among the states with more deaths than births were Oregon, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Some northeastern states \u2014 including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts \u2014 saw deaths exceed births in both 2019 and 2020.Beyond falling marriage rates among younger Americans, anxiety over climate change may be leading to lower fertility. An August investor note from Morgan Stanley economists explained that the \u201cmovement 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.\u201dSeveral thousand young people have signed the \u201cNo Future Pledge\u201d \u2014 which encourages the avoidance of reproduction in the interest of cutting carbon emissions.\u00a0\u201cEven though I want to have children more than almost anything, I am pledging not to, until the government takes the climate crisis seriously,\u201d wrote one organizer in an opinion piece. \u201cMy generation is facing a future of economic instability, food scarcity and extreme weather events. With climate change forcing millions of people out of their homes, poverty and violence will inevitably rise. Who wants their children to face the worst that humanity has to offer? We can turn the tide, but this requires political will.\u201d\u201cUntil our government begins to act like the grown-ups they\u2019re supposed to be, we will make uncomfortably grown-up decisions of our own and refuse to carry on as though all is fine.\u201dMeanwhile, China \u2014 which is facing significant demographic pressures due to its longstanding \u201cone-child policy\u201d \u2014 announced earlier this year that it will permit couples to have up to three children.\u201cThe announcement by the ruling Communist Party represents an acknowledgment that its limits on reproduction, the world\u2019s toughest, have jeopardized the country\u2019s future,\u201d The New York Times reported. \u201cThe labor pool is shrinking and the population is graying, threatening the industrial strategy that China has used for decades to emerge from poverty to become an economic powerhouse.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}