{"id":1222620,"date":"2022-01-18T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222620"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:55:11","slug":"elon-musk-warns-about-the-direction-mankind-is-going-u-n-projections-are-utter-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-warns-about-the-direction-mankind-is-going-u-n-projections-are-utter-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Warns About The Direction Mankind Is Going: \u2018U.N. Projections Are Utter Nonsense\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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-about-the-direction-mankind-is-going-u-n-projections-are-utter-nonsense%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=1222620&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>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk warned again on Tuesday that people need to be much more concerned about the collapse of civilization due to declining birthrates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be much more worried about population collapse,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1483484932961972227?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cUN projections are utter nonsense. Just multiply last year\u2019s births by life expectancy. Given downward trend in birth rate, that is best case unless reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there aren\u2019t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won\u2019t be enough for Mars,\u201d Musk, who has six children, said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk pointed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/05\/993817146\/u-s-birth-rate-fell-by-4-in-2020-hitting-another-record-low\">report<\/a> from last year on the U.S. birthrate that stated:<\/p>\n<p><em>The number of babies born in the U.S. dropped by 4% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to a new federal report released Wednesday. The general fertility rate was 55.8 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, reaching yet another record low, according to the provisional data. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The U.S. total fertility rate, which estimates how many babies a hypothetical group of 1,000 women would have during their life based on data from a given year, remains far \u201cbelow replacement\u201d \u2013 meaning there wouldn\u2019t be enough babies born for a generation to exactly replace itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Musk has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1419825607622500352\">warned<\/a> on social media and in interviews that \u201cpopulation collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview late last year with The Babylon Bee, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M&amp;t=545s\">said<\/a>, \u201cIf you just simply look at the birth rate statistics, you can tell what the future is going to be like because you can see how many children were born last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you could say, \u2018Is the birth rate trending down or up?\u2019 And it\u2019s been trending down basically almost everywhere,\u201d Musk continued. \u201c[We\u2019re] trending towards well below replacement rate. And a lot of countries have been well below replacement rate for a long time \u2026 The earth is far from overpopulated. Far, far from overpopulated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk told The Wall Street Journal at an event last month that \u201cthere are not enough people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t emphasize this enough, there are not enough people,\u201d Musk said. Musk said that the notion that the earth is overpopulated is not true and that \u201cit\u2019s completely the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people don\u2019t have more children, civilization is going to crumble,\u201d he added. \u201cMark my words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk, currently the richest man in the world, was named as Time Magazine\u2019s 2021 Person of the Year. The magazine described him as a \u201cclown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P.T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and&nbsp;Watchmen\u2019s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk is known for founding SpaceX and The Boring Company, co-founding Tesla Motors, and aggressively championing cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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 class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk warned again on Tuesday that people need to be much more concerned about the collapse of civilization due to declining birthrates. \u201cWe should be much more worried about population collapse,\u201d Musk wrote on Twitter. \u201cUN projections are utter nonsense. Just multiply last year\u2019s births by life expectancy. Given downward trend in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1222620","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\/1222620","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222620\/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=1222620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}