{"id":1096536,"date":"2021-12-07T22:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096536"},"modified":"2021-12-07T22:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:13:38","slug":"elon-musk-declining-birth-rates-biggest-threat-to-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-declining-birth-rates-biggest-threat-to-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Declining Birth Rates &#039;Biggest&#039; Threat to Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-declining-birth-rates-biggest-threat-to-civilization%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=1096536&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Elon-Musk-in-Germany-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In an age when Big Tech billionaires push population control and fearmonger over resource scarcity, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has distinguished himself as the exception, consistently warning that population decline will be the death of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the <em>Wall Street Journal\u2019s<\/em> CEO Council Summit, Musk reaffirmed his past positions that the world is quickly becoming underpopulated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t emphasize this enough: There are not enough people,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lSD_vpfikbE\">Musk said<\/a>&nbsp;via a video call from a new Tesla factory. \u201cOne of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birth rate.\u201d He went on:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p>And 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. t\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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk has continued sounding the alarm about the dangers of population decline and the demographic winter that would follow from declining birthrates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world\u2019s population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-reiterates-global-population-is-headed-for-collapse-2019-6\">he tweeted<\/a> in 2017 in response to a New Scientist article about a \u201cpopulation bomb\u201d going off in 2076.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cReal issue will [be] an aging &amp; declining world population by 2050, *not* overpopulation,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1141977875567919104?s=20\">he tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;in 2019. \u201cDemographics, stratified by age, will look like an upside down pyramid with many old people &amp; fewer young.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July of this year, Musk shared a <em>WSJ<\/em> article lamenting the U.S. decline in population growth, warning it is \u201cpotentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7655172413793\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Population collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VVN8kElTlS\">https:\/\/t.co\/VVN8kElTlS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1419825607622500352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prb.org\/news\/2021-world-population-data-sheet-released\/\">2021 world population data sheet<\/a>, the global birthrate has fallen from 3.2 live births per woman in 1990 to 2.3 live births per woman in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world population, currently 7.8 billion, is expected to peak at around 9.7 billion by 2050 but decline to 8.8 billion in 2021,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(20)30677-2\/fulltext\">researchers predicted<\/a>&nbsp;in a report published in the journal The Lancet,\u201d reported <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/special\/584727-elon-musk-declining-birth-rate-one-of-biggest-threats-to-civilization?rl=1\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the U.S., birth rates have fallen for the past six years, with 1,637 births per 1,000 women,\u201d the report added. \u201cThe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/04\/2020-census-data-release.html\">2020 U.S. Census<\/a>&nbsp;showed the population in the country climbed just 7 percent from 2010 to 331 million people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an age when Big Tech billionaires push population control and fearmonger over resource scarcity, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has distinguished himself as the exception, consistently warning that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-1096536","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\/1096536","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096536\/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=1096536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}