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Elon Musk says the planet needs more oil ... and babies
AFP via Yahoo ^ | August 29, 2022

Posted on 08/29/2022 4:17:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has fathered 10 children, said on Monday the world needs to "make more babies" -- and keep digging for oil.

The richest man on the planet, who has repeatedly warned that low birth rates posed a "danger" to civilization, said ahead of an energy conference in Norway that the world is facing a "baby crisis".

Asked about the greatest challenges facing the world, Musk cited the transition to renewable energies but also said the birth rate was "one of my favourite... things to be concerned about."

"We don't want the population to drop so low that we'll just eventually die," Musk, founder of American electric car manufacturer Tesla and SpaceX, told reporters in Stavanger, southwest Norway.

"At least make enough babies to sustain the population," he added.

He also said the planet still needed new fossil fuel sources.

"I think realistically we do need to use oil and gas in the short term, because otherwise civilization would crumble," he said, adding that "some additional exploration is warranted at this time".

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: energy; life; musk; oil
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He goes too far on the population scare. It is true that there will be a vast population decline due to urbanization, feminism, homosexulality, and general leftist nihilism, but that only describes the most liberal 40-60% of a population. The others are more religious and family oriented and will survive in a lesser state.


21 posted on 08/29/2022 6:14:47 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...and burrito coverings.


22 posted on 08/29/2022 6:15:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

leftists: heretic!


23 posted on 08/29/2022 6:31:49 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: central_va

apples oranges

a plague is not the same thing as a low birth rate


24 posted on 08/29/2022 6:35:02 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Maris Crane
He's been consistent in these two positions.
25 posted on 08/29/2022 6:54:16 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
'rats want more babies in soil.

Should be their theme for election 2022...with all the Roe blathering.

26 posted on 08/29/2022 6:58:23 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: central_va

Higher wages are happening now due to lack of working population. The economy adjusts.


27 posted on 08/29/2022 7:07:32 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: Vigilanteman
LOL! I don’t think they take donors over 60.

I know some good looking (much younger) babes that love donations from someone over 60.

28 posted on 08/29/2022 7:18:58 AM PDT by politicianslie (Those who got vaxxed need to update their wills. You are a guinea pig in a dangerous drug trial.)
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To: napscoordinator
Higher wages are happening now due to lack of working population.

LOL. Lack.

We have a wage shortge and not a labor shortage.

29 posted on 08/29/2022 7:21:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Varda

I think the first 6 (one has died) were from marriage and the others are bastards.


30 posted on 08/29/2022 7:25:36 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oil yes.

Babies, just some places but not many.


31 posted on 08/29/2022 7:54:57 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: politicianslie

You are talking about donations from the bank accounts, not the testicles, right?


32 posted on 08/29/2022 9:20:34 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: central_va

You need to get out more.


33 posted on 08/29/2022 9:38:01 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Certainly there is a black jive drug dealer somewhere who has more kids.

I remember an episode of The Maury Show a few years back-—

an 18 year old black male was being tested for 3 babies paternity on that one show.

HE WAS the father of all THREE-—which put his known TOTAL at that point===18-———

18 years old with 18 paternity tests proving fathering 18 kids-—and NO job—Not more than 10th grade education—and he was laughing.

ALL those kids were being supported on welfare by taxpayers.


34 posted on 08/29/2022 1:02:57 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: central_va

WE have UNDER EDUCATED idiots demanding $15 an hour or more.

NONE of them can get a job filling water tanks at a dairy farm.


35 posted on 08/29/2022 1:05:41 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles
WE have UNDER EDUCATED idiots demanding getting $15 an hour or more, because that is the market price for unskilled labor..

Fixed it.

36 posted on 08/29/2022 1:11:59 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The planet has plenty of oil, natural gas and uranium. And they’re not finite.


37 posted on 08/29/2022 1:18:21 PM PDT by Fledermaus (With Trans Republicans like McCarthy and McConnell do we really want them to win Congress in 2022?)
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