As founder and CEO of several futuristic tech startups, Elon Musk is revered as one of the
most innovative minds in the world.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has more or less dedicated his entire life to inventing technologies
and ideas that solve some of the world’s biggest problems and make our lives easier.
They range from electric vehicles to spacecraft to underground tunnel transportation systems,
orbital internet constellations, and developing Mars so that humans can one day become a multi-planet
species.
However, this billionaire doesn’t exactly buy into the idea of extending our timeline
on earth beyond what it is naturally supposed to be.
Today, we’ll talk about Elon Musk’s plan to increase the world’s population and his
argument against age-reversal research and immortality.
We'll also address pertinent questions like:
Does Elon Musk Really Want You To Die?
Should Humans Attempt To Live Forever?
On Which Planet Would Musk Prefer To Die?
Is There A Looming Global Demographic Crisis?
Many philosophers have studied the world's population over the centuries, foretelling
various stories of doom and gloom.
Today, as we approach an estimated headcount of 8 billion, there's still a lot of debate
about what the ideal figure should be.
Except Elon Musk believes humans need to speed up the world's fertility rate and banish any
thoughts of achieving immortality.
While some have suggested that the world is currently overpopulated, Musk believes that
the reverse is the case, and a comprehensive dig into the data bank confirms this.
Amidst reports of a vastly declining birth rate, the world's most populous country, China,
scrapped its one-child policy in 2016 and introduced a new program that will allow citizens
to have a maximum of two children.
But that didn't seem to change the trajectory of the declining birth rate.
So in 2021, following damning reports of a shrinking workforce caused by the country's
aging population and low fertility rate, China increased the number of children allowed to
three.
Some human rights activists have called on the government to abolish the restrictions
altogether.
However, experts say this could lead to other problems.
Besides that, China is also faced with the obstacle of convincing its young citizens
to outgrow the one-child policy and reproduce at a higher rate.
China's declining birth rate is worrying as most of the world's major industries depend
on it to thrive, but what's more alarming is the looming demographic crisis faced by
other superpower countries.
Japan's number of registered marriages and birth rate fell to a record low of 525,490
and 840,832, respectively, in 2020.
Reports say the UK's population, faced with its lowest fertility rate ever recorded, fell
by as much as one million during the pandemic.
Germany is also plagued with this low fertility rate pandemic.
The United States is not left out either.
According to the Census Bureau, the US population grew by only 0.1% in 2021 - the lowest fertility
data recorded since the country was established.
“I was expecting low growth but nothing this low," William Frey, a senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution's metropolitan policy program, said, “It tells us that this pandemic
has had a huge impact on us in all kinds of ways, and now demography."
Analysts at Morgan Stanley recently informed investors that there's a deliberate attempt
by humans "to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting
fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline."
These stats should worry anyone and everyone who wants the betterment of the world we live
in.
If the situation continues to deteriorate at this rate, there may not be enough workforce
to power the world's economy in a few years.
On the other hand, if the population rate explodes beyond reasonable levels, the current
resources clearly won't be enough to cater to them.
So how do we deal with this dilemma, and what does Elon Musk think about it?
Following a report by the Health Metrics and Evaluation team at the University of Washington
that the global fertility rate will plunge by 2050, Musk suggested that the world could
end with a whimper.
But in typical Elon Musk style, he proffered innovative solutions to avert it.
"I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining
birthrate," adding that "If there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely
won’t be enough for Mars."
Staying true to his word and leading the revolution from the frontline, Elon Musk has six children
and might be looking to add one more to his baby collection.
"I’m trying to set a good example!
Population collapse is a much bigger problem than people realize, and that’s just for
Earth."
The billionaire added.
As regards plans to birth more children, Musk said his "next baby will be a girl."
Should Humans Attempt To Live Forever?
One would think that Elon Musk, with all his visionary ideas to make humans a multiplanetary
species, would be one of the pioneers of anti-aging and immortality technologies, but he's actually
against both initiatives.
At first, Musk said during an interview at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit
that "he's not aware of any secret technology to combat aging," However, he later took a
dig at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who is looking to defy death by investing in Altos Labs - seemingly
admitting the technology is being developed by his rival.
In case you are unaware, Altos Labs is a biotech startup pursuing cell restoration and age
reversal technologies.
Replying to one of the tweets that announced the news, Musk said, "And if it doesn't work,
he's gonna sue death!"
Suggesting that Bezos will take to court if the project fails, however, Altos Labs insists
that its goal is to improve human health through biological reprogramming means and not to
cheat death.
Musk tends to think along this line, too but living forever is not an option.
"I’m not actually a huge proponent of longevity," Musk said in 2015.
"I do think that having a good life for longer is better — we want to address things that
can happen to you when you're old, like dementia, that's important — but I don't know, I definitely
don't want to live forever."
Elon Musk also made a rallying call against aged people holding important positions
"I am not poking fun at aging," Musk said.
"I am saying we've got people in very important positions that have to make decisions that
are critical to the security of the country, then they need to have sufficient presence
of mind and cognitive ability to make those decisions well.
Because the whole country is depending on them."
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Does Elon Musk Want You To Die?
Unfortunately or rather fortunately, Elon Musk wants you and everyone else in the world
(including himself) to die.
But only when we’re gray and old.
Death is a controversially sensitive topic; there's this sudden reluctance by most people
to hold a conversation when the topic of discussion revolves around death.
Not Elon Musk, though.
The mega-billionaire says he "will welcome death when it comes."
more people should adopt this attitude because, as they say, death is unavoidable; ignoring
it will not prevent it from happening.
"It is important for us to die because most of the time people don't change; they just
die," Musk said.
"If you live forever, we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed."
On Which Planet Would Musk Prefer To Die?
Unlike the average human, Elon Musk might have the luxury of choosing to die on a different
planet outside earth.
In response to his comments on welcoming death, one Twitter user asked if the Tesla boss will
open his arms wide to death if it didn't happen on planet Mars.
Musk replied, "Preferably on Mars."
Elon Musk's reputation as a critical thinker precedes him, and his anxieties about the
world possibly plunging into an underpopulation catastrophe cannot be pushed aside.
Living longer or forever doesn't exactly increase the quality of our lives.
So pursuing age reversal technologies might be unnecessary after all.
Nevertheless, we expect Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Peter Thiel, and their ultra-rich cohorts
to continue their quest to breed immortals.
At this point, we'd like to pass the baton to you.
Do you agree with Elon Musk?
Would you like to live forever?
Should humans chase immortality?
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