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Elon Musk: The world's population is accelerating toward collapse and nobody cares.
CNBC ^ | 3 Hours Ago | 01:01 | David Gernon

Posted on 07/06/2017 12:20:33 PM PDT by jerod

Elon Musk usually tweets about mundane topics, from LA traffic to Tesla projects. On Thursday he was more dire.

"The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care," Tesla's CEO tweeted to his nearly 10 million followers. He pointed to a November article in New Scientist magazine titled, "The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded."

The piece, written by Fred Pearce points to Japan as a case study for what could go wrong in the relatively near future.

Rather than a meltdown where the Earth's population outstrips the planet's ability to feed everyone, we could be headed toward a more subtle but equally disastrous outcome where our population simply does not replace itself fast enough.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; overpopulation; tesla; trends
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To: Enlightened1
If Musk really believes what he says, then he should want the entire world to Westernize.

This is because when countries Westernize the birth rate goes down.

I think what you are referring to as "westernize" is to adopt the long term leftist goals of "free love" (responsibility free sex), Abortion, and homosexuality. These things have decimated our population.

The left have always been Malthusians.

21 posted on 07/06/2017 12:47:00 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Zathras
Musk: “But everyone buying $100k electric cars will save the Planet” He really is scared about loosing his Green Gov Kickbacks.

So you think this is his angle on this particular tweet?

Interesting.

22 posted on 07/06/2017 12:49:24 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Vince Ferrer

You and some despots hehheh


23 posted on 07/06/2017 12:56:50 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (---->VMFA 235- '69 -'72 KMCAS <--- F4 PHANTOM FLYING BRICK)
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To: jerod

Ought to fix global warming then.


24 posted on 07/06/2017 1:03:36 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: DiogenesLamp

When we were a rural nation families needed to be larger.

This was because the the technology was not as great compared to today. Thus, not every family meme ER would make it.... Plus you needed more people to run the farm. You may lose some that leave the home too. That’s why you needed big families. We still see that in many rural societies today. In Western societies you don’t see that because of technology.

Although I believe generally speaking there is a correlation between morality and freedom. The lower the morality in a nation the less free society become. The higher the morality in a society the less crimes you see. The more free the people become.


25 posted on 07/06/2017 1:04:21 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Obadiah

Give him a few billion in grants and he’ll suggest a fix.


26 posted on 07/06/2017 1:05:29 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Rather than a meltdown where the Earth's population outstrips the planet's ability to feed everyone, we could be headed toward a more subtle but equally disastrous outcome where our population simply does not replace itself fast enough.

"The world has hit peak child," the late Hans Rosling, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, said in the article.

Is she really saying that girls in the developed world , better educated people, etc just aren’t having enough children???
The obvious problem is that Western society, as now structured, exalts abortion and does not respect motherhood.

The big bomb of respecting motherhood, and fatherhood, is promotion of home “schooling.” Show me a society where mothers “aren’t good enough” to raise their children, and I’ll show you a society which does not have - does not deserve - replacement-rate childbearing.

Population growth is natural anywhere there is adequate food to sustain it, and a culture which does not denigrate it.

It takes a village to sustain motherhood as a respected calling. It takes a village to scorn and reject denigration of parenthood, and place parents above government bureaucrats.


27 posted on 07/06/2017 1:06:50 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (A press can be “associated,” or a press can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

“This is one of his tweets I can agree with.”

Right you are, Vince. Musk is a brilliant parasitic opportunist and progressive, but he hit the mark on this. Statements of our own Freepers on this thread point out that they don’t give a rip in spite of hard evidence slapping them in the face.

For example the mass exodus of Africans to Europe. These people are fleeing hunger, disease, drought — it matters not that circumstances were largely of there own making. Those Africans are wreaking havoc, but the enormous havoc lies ahead.

We’re running out of space and natural resources on this old planet.

Anyone who doesn’t see it is blind. Even our good Free Republic bretheren.


28 posted on 07/06/2017 1:11:06 PM PDT by Hennible Cobb (Don't wait for orders! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: jerod

Well I’ll tell you this, one thing that does appear to be collapsing is the stock price of Tesla. The last three days have been brutal, and then came the report that China is going to eat Musk’s giga battery factory for lunch by producing more batteries at a cheaper unit cost. Brtal. I almost feel bad for the saps who doled out all that “free” taxpayer money to bid for the giga factory.


29 posted on 07/06/2017 1:11:06 PM PDT by Obadiah (Global warming caused Hillary to lose the election.)
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To: jerod

Another futurist who will be proved wrong.


30 posted on 07/06/2017 1:19:58 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Enlightened1
My concern is not so much that ours and Europe's and China's population has leveled off, it's that the parts of the world least able to take care of themselves are having massive numbers of children.

They are irresponsible, and a lot of wealthy people over here are helping to make the problem worse.

31 posted on 07/06/2017 1:23:29 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: jerod

Peak uterus is coming soon.


32 posted on 07/06/2017 1:24:11 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (How many ways do liberals hate the bible?)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Pat Buchanan warned of this in his book “The Death Of The West”.

People trashed the book as racist and xenophobic - but for the most part he was right.


33 posted on 07/06/2017 1:33:04 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: jerod

Isn’t this the normal ebb and tide: God’s plan?


34 posted on 07/06/2017 1:34:01 PM PDT by Prolixus (Drain the swamp!!!)
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To: jerod
Gee, never heard that one before...

The Population Bomb Professor Paul R. Ehrlich - 1968

The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (who was uncredited), in 1968. It warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a "population explosion" were widespread in the 1950s and 1960s, but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience.


35 posted on 07/06/2017 1:40:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (Investigate the Awan brothers and Wasserman Schultz)
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To: jerod

Its just, Musk, no one cares what you say.


36 posted on 07/06/2017 1:42:25 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: jerod

Shouldn’t Elvon be bellying up to some federal trough or something?


37 posted on 07/06/2017 1:52:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: jerod

If Ken Lay had a son it would be Elon Musk


38 posted on 07/06/2017 1:54:43 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Obadiah
...then came the report that China is going to eat Musk’s giga battery factory for lunch by producing more batteries at a cheaper unit cost...

And batteries from either factory will randomly burst into flames at inopportune times.

39 posted on 07/06/2017 1:57:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: jerod

Birth rates are indeed declining, but it really doesn’t matter if rates drop below the putative replacement level. That’s because the theoretical “replacement level” assumes that people are going to keep dying and hence need to be replaced. In reality we’ll probably solve the aging problem (and other diseases) within the next couple of decades, which will drastically reduce the death rate. Some people will still die from accidents, murders, suicides, wars, etc. But the current “death by old age” will mostly disappear, as will its impact on the population statistics.

In other words, most of us will stay alive (and young and healthy, as regenerative medicine advances). The population of the earth will be supplemented by a continuing trickle of births, and will either stabilize or grow very slowly. At the same time, frontier colonies off of earth (other planets and moons and asteroids and other solar systems) might encourage higher local birth rates to expand more quickly.

Being only 69 years old, I look forward to seeing how it all unfolds.


40 posted on 07/06/2017 2:14:15 PM PDT by dpwiener
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