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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: jerod

POPULATION HOW MUCH?

Funny how nobody will say what the USA population should be?

2 billion people? 5 billion USA population?
“More population as better” is economic fallacy.

20% lower population is a good start.

I say 80% less population is a noble goal because high density, coffin apartments in American cities only creates welfare Democrats, while depleting the happier suburban vote. High density vertical apartments only benefits politicians from donors, while congesting highways.

Rent seeking is poor economics.

Tax vertical dwellings above 2 stories, to pay for poor highways.


41 posted on 07/06/2017 2:27:47 PM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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To: jerod

I feel fine.


42 posted on 07/06/2017 2:27:49 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Climate Change: The Imminent Crisis That Never Arrives and the gravy train that never ends.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Yes. The Honey Bee Population is decreasing, while the Locust Population is multiplying geometrically.
Any predictions for the future?
43 posted on 07/06/2017 2:51:24 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Extinction, probably not.
Idiocracy, absolutely.


44 posted on 07/06/2017 3:15:52 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’ve seen different reports (not saying they’re necessarily true) that says almost every nation, even in the worst 3rd World Cesspools, is declining.

The drop-off in China and India is stark over the next 20 years due to the one-child policy and women just not having children.

The drop-off in Muslim nations is even steeper.

Here’s a report from 2015

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/shrinking-china-demographic-crisis

FWIW


45 posted on 07/06/2017 3:22:37 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: jerod

Chicken Little encountered the same problem.


46 posted on 07/06/2017 3:24:33 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: jerod

This idiot is the CEO of a major company? The population bomb is such yesterday news. He picked the worse country to prove his example. Japan is in a population implosion, like the one read in Children of Men. Where are the young people that, crudely, are going to wipe the asses of the growing elderly population? Except maybe for Russia, they have the fastest declining tax base in the West.


47 posted on 07/06/2017 3:58:17 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Vince Ferrer

You must be a teenager.

Malthusianism has been the Chicken Little cry since the 1960s. Actually, it’s been around for a lot longer, but came to a head then because of leftist propaganda and the soft, absorbent skulls inundated with pseudoscientific claptrap.

You’ll love Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” and the movie that uses it as a loose basis, “Soylent Green”. Just don’t look up Ehrlich’s track record on predictions. Hint: For a futurist, he sucks donkey testicles. OOPS SPOILER!


48 posted on 07/06/2017 4:11:00 PM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: jerod

Of course he is using Paul Ehrlich as an expert witness for the accuracy of his predictions:
“The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines . . . [AND] hundreds of millions of people [including Americans] are going to starve to death.” (1968)
“Smog disasters” in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. (1969)
“I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” (1969)
“Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.” (1976)

I wonder if sometime in the past he and Al Gore were room mates.


49 posted on 07/06/2017 5:00:39 PM PDT by Nuocmam (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: angryoldfatman
You must be a teenager. Malthusianism has been the Chicken Little cry since the 1960s. Actually, it’s been around for a lot longer, but came to a head then because of leftist propaganda and the soft, absorbent skulls inundated with pseudoscientific claptrap. You’ll love Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” and the movie that uses it as a loose basis, “Soylent Green”. Just don’t look up Ehrlich’s track record on predictions. Hint: For a futurist, he sucks donkey testicles. OOPS SPOILER!

I am not a teenager, nor am I a Paul Ehrlich fan. In fact I have the opposite beliefs as his. But Ehrlich's economics has nothing to do with whether or not the population will crash.

50 posted on 07/06/2017 5:10:06 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: angryoldfatman

The basis for the movie “Soylent Green” was Harry Harrison’s story “Make Room, Make Room” which was published in 1966 two years before Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 “Population Bomb”.


51 posted on 07/06/2017 5:10:09 PM PDT by Nuocmam (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: jerod

“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.”

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I don’t take New Scientist seriously. It’s like the National Enquirer of science.


52 posted on 07/06/2017 5:35:41 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Truth be known, we could put every human alive in the world in the state of Texas and they would each have 1500 square feet of living space.

disclaimer: Texas was an example and not a suggestion by any means.


53 posted on 07/06/2017 6:37:48 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

The population bomb has “imploded”?

This genius doesn’t even know the difference between “exploded” and “imploded”?


54 posted on 07/06/2017 6:38:16 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's down is up, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: jerod

Prepare to meet thy doom! And how better to meet it than in a flashy new Tesla. See our new models at a Tesla dealer near you. Do it today!


55 posted on 07/06/2017 7:51:22 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and thse religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: jerod

So why is he dating a lesbian?


56 posted on 07/06/2017 8:12:15 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: jerod

Been awhile since we had a really big war to attain population control.
HOw many millions did Joe Stalin kill? Mao? Today’s murderers are pikers.


57 posted on 07/07/2017 4:09:40 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Falcon4.0
Yes. The Honey Bee Population is decreasing, while the Locust Population is multiplying geometrically. Any predictions for the future?

Blood.

We used to control forest fires. We would put out every fire that happened because we didn't want any forest fires. This caused a massive accumulation of brush and overgrown forest. Eventually it became too big to stop it from burning, and so around the beginning of the 20th century we had the most massive forest fires in history. They were so bad that the military was called in to evacuate towns and to fight the fire.

Since then we've learned you have to let small forest fires burn out the overgrowth from time to time, or you will eventually get one so big it becomes a dire threat to everyone in the vicinity.

58 posted on 07/07/2017 6:44:47 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Nuocmam

Thanks for the correction, if indeed it is correct (never heard of a base story for the movie).

The movie had Malthusian themes. Malthus’ “An Essay on the Principle of Population” is of course much older than all of this (published 1798).

The movie COINCIDENTALLY came out around the big environmental nuttiness of hippies, when Malthusianism was the big thing. Morphed into Earth Day, Gaia Hypothesis, you name it. Of course by the 1970s it was GLOBAL COOLING that was going to kill us all.


59 posted on 07/07/2017 10:54:00 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: Vince Ferrer

Population crashing has to do with actions of governments and stupid billionaires’ propaganda campaigns.

So Musk has more to do with the population crashing than any Chicken Little scenario. Musk and Gates and their crowd are the Chicken Littles.


60 posted on 07/07/2017 10:58:26 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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