Billionaire Elon Musk sat down for an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson this week, during which he argued that abortion and birth control are fueling the population collapse.
In the interview, Musk said the human urge to procreate has been “subverted” by abortion and birth control, pointing out how in countries like Japan, deaths outnumber births.
“In the past we could rely upon, you know, simple limbic system rewards in order to procreate,” he began. “But once you have birth control and abortions and whatnot, now you can still satisfy limbic instinct, but not procreate.”
The ability to delay childbearing, or kill preborn children if women do get pregnant, could lead to the fall of civilization, he warned.
“I’m sort of worried that hey, civilization, if we don’t make enough people to at least sustain our numbers, perhaps increase a little bit, then civilization’s going to crumble,” he said. “The old question of like, will civilization end with a bang or a whimper? Well, it’s currently trying to end with a whimper in adult diapers, which is depressing as hell.”
Musk has often warned about population collapse in recent years, even calling it the “biggest problem” facing the world today.
For decades, supposed “experts” have warned of the dangers of overpopulation, but the reality is, nearly half of the world’s countries are below replacement rate, meaning the population is declining, not growing. Japan, as cited by Musk, has been one notorious example of a “demographic time bomb,” with entire villages disappearing as the aging population dies, while young people struggle to find work. Meanwhile, the elderly still alive have no one to care for them.
Other countries, like China, are facing similar concerns. Other countries — such as Denmark, Italy, Norway, Germany, and Hungary — have enacted policies encouraging people to have more children in an effort to combat low fertility rates. In the United States, the fertility rate is the lowest in 30 years.
Yet people still encourage abortion as a means to combat overpopulation, even though it is a myth… lending credence to Musk’s concerns that abortion will seriously harm global civilization.
