This article was originally published on May 8, 2022.
On Saturday, May 7th, a Twitter profile called @WholeMarsBlog shared a post about Japan’s population decline.
In response to the tweet, Tesla chairman Elon Musk replied, expressing concern about the declining birth rate and rising mortality rate.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if nothing changes that causes the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. That would be a great loss to the world.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 7, 2022
@WholeMarsBlog cited a report noting that Japan’s population had its largest population decline on record, falling by 644,000 to just over 125.5 million in 2021.
The decline was the largest since comparable data became available in the 1950s.
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In early January, Musk spoke about the population collapse and mentioned that people should focus on having more babies.
We should be much more worried about population collapse
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 18, 2022
If there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won’t be enough for Mars
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 18, 2022
In April, he shared how the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lower birth rate in contrast to the “baby boom” that was expected as people were forced to stay indoors.
I’m talking about not having children at all. That’s the problem.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2022
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“I’m really worried about this birth rate thing,” Musk said in a recent interview. “This has worried me for many years because I don’t see it turning around. Every year it gets worse. And I drive my friends crazy with it.”
“I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the birth rate thing,” Musk added. “This may be the greatest threat to the future of human civilization.”
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