{"id":1468256,"date":"2022-05-08T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T01:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468256"},"modified":"2022-05-08T21:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T01:44:39","slug":"a-great-loss-for-the-world-elon-musk-predicts-the-end-of-japan-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-great-loss-for-the-world-elon-musk-predicts-the-end-of-japan-eventually\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Great Loss For The World\u2019: Elon Musk Predicts The End Of Japan \u2026 Eventually"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fa-great-loss-for-the-world-elon-musk-predicts-the-end-of-japan-eventually%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=1468256&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1395059297-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk predicted that the island nation of Japan would ultimately not survive if the country\u2019s death rate continued to exceed the birth rate.<\/p>\n<p>Musk was responding to an article about the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/mark-my-words-elon-musk-bucks-leading-smart-people-with-warning-about-birth-rate\/\">population decline<\/a> in Japan in 2021 \u2014 which fell by a record-breaking 644,000 to 125.5 million over the course of 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. This would be a great loss for the world,\u201d Musk tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. This would be a great loss for the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1523045544536723456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk has often complained about declining birth rates in other countries as well \u2014 even attributing Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine to a decline in population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty good summary, although national pride is underweighted relative to economics. Latter serves former, not other way around,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1498933217986060288\">said<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealLifeLore22\/status\/1497827150690279424\">video<\/a> exploring the reasons Russia might be at war with Ukraine. \u201cThe foundational issue imo, which this video doesn\u2019t ignore, is low birth rate. After all, what good is land with no people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also complained about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/musk-again-bucks-the-smart-people-to-warn-against-low-birthing-rates\/\">declining birth rate<\/a> in the United States \u2014 and noting that \u201cpopulation collapse\u201d is a more realistic concern than the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be much more worried about population collapse,\u201d he said in January, arguing that the United Nations\u2019 population projections were not accurate. \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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UN 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1483485798548840450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf there aren\u2019t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won\u2019t be enough for Mars,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1483486559336910850\">concluded<\/a>, making an apparent reference to his own company, SpaceX, and the possibility that humans could ever colonize another planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the alarming collapse in birth rate continues, civilization will indeed die with a whimper in adult diapers,\u201d he said on another occasion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the alarming collapse in birth rate continues, civilization will indeed die with a whimper in adult diapers<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1480564443629207557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>German demographer and geographer Simon Keustenmacher shared a graphic showing the worldwide decline in population as a decreasing spiral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElegant way of showing global fertility data for every country in 2019. It\u2019s actually a rather elegant visual. Spend a few minutes studying it and might become as big as a fan of the piece as I am,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Birth rate collapse is the biggest threat to human civilization<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1440742298518577156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk responded to the graphic, asserting, \u201cBirth rate collapse is the biggest threat to human civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk predicted that the island nation of Japan would ultimately not survive if the country\u2019s death rate continued to exceed the birth rate.Musk was responding to an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1482052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468256","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\/1468256","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}