'There won't be enough people for Mars': Elon Musk warns about population collapse.

[NickB79]

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/there-won-t-be-enough-people-for-mars-elon-musk-warns-about-population-collapse-see-posts-11642554956664.html

Elon Musk wants people to be concerned about having more babies. “We should be much more worried about population collapse,” Musk wrote in a tweet
The tech billionaire said that if there aren’t enough people for Earth, ‘then there definitely won’t be enough for Mars’

Apparently 8 billion humans straining the planet's ecosystems into the largest mass extinction in 65 million years isn't enough for Elon.

[Baitball Blogger]

1. If aliens are secretly supplying technology hints to Elon Musk, they should reconsider.

If they want Earth to be more populated, then make Earth a better place to raise children. Seems simple enough.

[msongs]

2. he should lead the way and be the first human to stay on mars permanently nt

[highplainsdem]

11. My thought, too. Wish we could send him there.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Now, He's An Expert On Civilization

At some point, journalists might realize he's just another guy with an opinion and that his musings carry no more intellectual weight than anybody else.
He's just a guy who holds a ton of overvalued stock.

[orwell]

5. But, but, but...

...CRYPTO!

[Silent3]

4. If we could work our way back down to around two billion, without distaster doing the job for us...

...I think humanity and the planet would be a whole lot better off.

[PortTack]

17. Took the words right out of my mouth!!

[Calculating]

23. This

If I was supreme ruler of the world I'd implement a global one child policy until we get back to around 1 billion. Too many people ruins things for all.

[Silent3]

26. It would take a bit of study to arrive at an ideal number, of course

Is it 1 billion? 2 billion? Hard to know. It all depends on what can be done about impact per person. The best approach combines both lowering population and per-person environmental impact at the same time.

One thing is fairly certain: We can't raise standards of living for everyone if a high standard of living equates to anything close to the current environmental impact of individual Americans. The planet would be completely ruined already if everyone on the planet had been living like that up until now.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. He needs introducing to the concept of "carrying capacity". For Mars, it's zero people.

For Earth, it's below 8 billion.

Sometimes I wonder if he has a medical problem with his brain. He's obviously intelligent about some things, but says breathtakingly stupid things about others. For someone who is apparently aware of environmental problems, this is one of the latter.

[Solly Mack]

7. Sounds like he's telling people he's free to make baby number 7 with someone new.

[0rganism]

8. Mars colony is a lame idea with current tech anyway

IMCO, the moon is where we should be looking. We should be focused on establishing lunar bases, orbital superscalar construction platforms, and tritium extraction. The moon has the resources we need and the low-g environment to prepare for the next steps of intra- and (eventually) inter-stellar exploration and travel.

WTF would we even do on Mars at this point?

[48656c6c6f20]

9. So bat shit crazy said what?

Hero worship of a lunatic is no better than worshiping the Great Orange Orifice of Magat-a-LargeAss

[Midnight Writer]

10. In that case, he needs to get up off of some of his money and promote prosperity on Earth.

First we get a lunatic President, then we get a lunatic who is the richest man in history.

Whatever happened to meritocracy?

[Eugene]

12. Musk is cherry picking, or he wants enough of the "right" kind of people.

Musk is pointing to fertility rates rates in the industrialized world, especially countries like Japan. He is projecting those numbers on humanity as a whole.

Then again, Musk is parroting a central canard of replacement theory.

[uponit7771]

14. ah, that's what it's called "replacement theory" ... knew this racist shit had some label to it

[uponit7771]

13. This is some white supremacist shit, he's NO DOUBT talking about white babies ... some bullshit

[Coventina]

15. WTF? Go home, Elon, you're drunk.

[roamer65]

16. 8 billion is too many.

[Skittles]

18. FUCK THAT GUY

like Trump, he has a seriously inflated ego

[Coventina]

20. Kick his ASS!!!

[LetsGoBiden]

19. He hast to look at the first world nations as an example

He hast to look at the first world nations as an example Third World nations an developing nations have a mortality rate of about 35 look at the countries in Africa or India or Afghanistan they’re literally going thru a famine and starving to death it’s a struggle to get past 35 in those countries so he has to look at the first world countries as an example of fertility when people got too much time on their hands they don’t populate that’s why in Africa when they’re fighting for their survival they they have very large families because one kid might only survive out of 10

[Nay]

21. God, what a nut. I'm so sick of these uber-rich assholes. nt

[raccoon]

22. Elon, you don't know what you're talking about. Nt

[aocommunalpunch]

24. You first, motherfucker.

Either go to Mars and fucking stay there or just show everyone how to reduce the population with yourself first. Entitled fuckwad.

[Act_of_Reparation]

25. K-Mart Tony Stark said a thing.

[tenderfoot]

27. What he means is that there aren't enough Billionaires to populate Mars

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