Everyone ’s favorite obscenely full-bodied guy , Elon Musk , is back in the news sounding the alarm clock Bell on a looming problem present humanity . This time around , it ’s not therise of artificial intelligenceor climate change , but the mounting trend of mass not having children .
Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’sCEO Council sessionthis week , Musk dismissed the worry of overpopulation , reason that pass up birth rates could contribute to societal collapse .
“ I recall one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate , ” he said on Monday night .
“ And yet , so many the great unwashed , including smart hoi polloi , think that there are too many mass in the world and call back that the universe is growing out of control . It ’s wholly the opposite , ” he added .
“ Please look at the number — if people do n’t have more children , civilization is going to crumble , distinguish my words . ”
Fatherof seven children , it look like the Telsa and SpaceX CEO practices what he preaches . He has commented on this topic before , tweetingback in July 2021 : “ Population collapse is a much bigger trouble than people realize and that ’s just for Earth . Mars has a great motive for mass , assure as universe is currently zero . ”
At the starting of the 19th 100 , the human populationstood atless than 1 billion . By the mid-20th century , this figure rose to over 2.5 billion . The following 70 years visualise a sharp lift , reachingapproximately 7.8 billion masses by 2021 . Overpopulation is the idea that the global human population could become too bombastic to be sustained by our environment and its natural resource . The construct has been around since the Industrial Revolution when betterment in medical sciences and industry saw this rocketing rise in a global universe , but it was injected into the public imaginativeness by the best - deal 1968 script , The Population Bombwritten by Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich .
However , it ’s a hugely controversial idea . Many student believeit ’s a full myth , argue the predicted " universe catastrophe " never happen and , in fact , the orbicular universe is stabilizing . Onerecent studyfound that the global universe is adjust to steady rise andpeak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion people , before falling to 8.8 billion by 2100 . This will be the first time the global universe has decline since the Black Death plague pandemic in the 14th C .
Many others argue the concept of overpopulation is tainted with racism and misogyny , and even compete that government concerned with overpopulation have beenresponsible forhuman rights insult , such as forced sterilization and exclusive tiddler policies .
