Musk warned against ‘population collapse’
Elon Musk warned that dwindling global fertility rates could keep a city from one day being built on Mars.
“We should be much more worried about population collapse,” Musk shared on his Twitter account in January.
The Tesla billionaire added: “if there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won’t be enough for Mars,” in a follow-up tweet.
Since at least 2020, experts have warned that birth rates around the world are dropping, with a BBC report calling it a “jaw-dropping” decline.
Musk, especially, has not held back his viewpoints on the diminishing fertility rates.
“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,” he said at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council last year.
“Please look at the numbers — if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words,” Musk said at the event.
