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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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KEYWORDS: elonmusk; overpopulation; tesla; trends
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The real question is... Can this collapse come soon enough for somebody like Elon Musk?

He has spent billions of dollars supplied by duped investors running a company that doesn't make a red cent and loses money on a quarterly basis, and if something like a global collapse doesn't happen soon, this electric car of the future gig will eventually be up... Then he will either need to be on-board that first space flight to Mars, or end up becoming Bernie Madoff's cell mate.

Something like a global collapse would surely take federal regulators minds of his fancy book keeping, so that's probably his best option for avoiding either of those two first scenarios. My take on his meandering... More wishful thinking on Elon's part.

1 posted on 07/06/2017 12:20:33 PM PDT by jerod
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To: jerod

Elon Musk is a carnival barker.


2 posted on 07/06/2017 12:24:27 PM PDT by Obadiah (Global warming caused Hillary to lose the election.)
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To: jerod

And this brainiac is wasting time and money on immature Mars missions.

“to whom much is given, much will be required”


3 posted on 07/06/2017 12:24:48 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: jerod

This is one of his tweets I can agree with.


4 posted on 07/06/2017 12:26:58 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: jerod

Musk’s real talent is getting others to pick up the tab for his various endeavors.


5 posted on 07/06/2017 12:27:14 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: jerod

Population is growing in many less developed countries.

Population growth is stangnant or declining in developed countries. But even in some such countries, population is growing due to immigration, legal and otherwise.

Is she really saying that girls in the developed world , better educated people, etc just aren’t having enough children???

The human species is not in any danger of Extinction.


6 posted on 07/06/2017 12:29:09 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: jerod

Okay; you go first, since you are so concerned. Lead by example.


7 posted on 07/06/2017 12:29:58 PM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: jerod

bbb.....bbbbu.....bb....bbbbbut I thought that TOO MANY PEOPLE was DESTROYING THE PLANET!!!


8 posted on 07/06/2017 12:30:11 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jerod

One way or the other, the earth will regulate life upon it.


9 posted on 07/06/2017 12:30:13 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: jerod; All

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.

So the answe to Musk’s fear is more Capitalism. Free people from government controls and the birth rate will drop.


10 posted on 07/06/2017 12:30:27 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: jerod

It’s a planned collapse. Got to get rid of a few billion.


11 posted on 07/06/2017 12:30:39 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners., tea)
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To: Obadiah

The elitis left are very much capable of attempting a mass holocaust of humanity to meet their warped totalitarian goals, either through war or engineering a plague. These people would think they are doing world and humanity a favor by murdering several billion people, they are quite dangerous. The only reason they haven’t yet is they know if they get caught it’s mass executions for the worlds elites.


12 posted on 07/06/2017 12:35:36 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: jerod

Preach it Brother, to all the Muslims living in Europe.

They are giving Viagra eating Rabbits a run for their money.


13 posted on 07/06/2017 12:38:11 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: jerod

What a vacuous article.

CNBC: “FLASH! Musk tweets that he’s eating a ham sandwich!”


14 posted on 07/06/2017 12:38:22 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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“The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded.”

Same old nonsense from the prophets of doom.
No one can ever predict future population, much less how it will be or behave. It was too much, now too few. It was hunger menace, now it’s obesity catastrophe.
I am becoming sick and tired of all these useless claimed experts blabering in the name of “science”.


15 posted on 07/06/2017 12:39:06 PM PDT by miniTAX (ay)
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He’s right that I don’t care and he’s wrong about population.

Population growth will slow and contract, not accelerate and collapse.

Everybody has to make a living and this is how many make it these days: By making meaningless forecasts about things no one can control anyway.

The goal these people isn’t to “fix” anything, it’s to bend everyone to their will.

But, America isn’t here so we can all be saved by our betters. America is here so we can do whatever the hell we want.


16 posted on 07/06/2017 12:39:44 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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Elon Musk: The world's population is accelerating toward collapse and nobody cares.

Well some of it is.


17 posted on 07/06/2017 12:39:53 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: jerod

Smart entrepreneurs find solutions (and make money) in these situations whether or not the predictions of doom have any basis in reality. And doom has never arrived so far.

Musk certainly sees a money opportunity in hyping this prediction. And, with Musk, that opportunity almost certainly will involve taking taxpayer money to do something that didn’t need to be done “for the sake of humanity”.

If this ends up being an actual threat to humanity, you can bet that people other than Musk will be the ones who actually save the world.

Just like if global warming ends up being as catastrophic as Gore claims, it won’t be Gore risking his money to develop ideas that save us. Gore and Musk’s ideas & investments are guaranteed to make them money - they’ll gladly take credit if any other good comes from them but that’s secondary.


18 posted on 07/06/2017 12:44:14 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Is she really saying that girls in the developed world , better educated people, etc just aren’t having enough children??

Promoting "free love", abortion, homosexuality, and so forth in Europe and the United States is having the consequence of crashing the developed world's population while the incapable of developing world is having massive amounts of children. (which they can't feed or care for)

19 posted on 07/06/2017 12:44:30 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: jerod

Musk: “But everyone buying $100k electric cars will save the Planet”
He really is scared about loosing his Green Gov Kickbacks.


20 posted on 07/06/2017 12:44:43 PM PDT by Zathras
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