Elon Musk is rightfully concerned about his children’s children’s children’s future.
He currently has 13 children and will likely have dozens of grandchildren.
This from redstate.com.
He is the CEO and founder of numerous companies, most famously of course SpaceX and Tesla. And he just helped rescue two astronauts from the International Space Station.
Meanwhile he is the head honcho at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and is in charge of trimming the fat and fraud from the bloated, behemoth federal government.
That is a lot of responsibility, yes. But he has applied even more to his plate. Even with all that to think about, Elon Musk has two worries above all others, and the first one is the declining global birth rate:
He said in part two of his [Fox News] Special Report exclusive interview Friday.
Well, there’s a lot of things that I suppose that I worry about. And some of these things will seem esoteric to people. The birth rate is very low in almost every country, and unless that changes, civilization will disappear.
Musk pointed to declining birth rates in the U.S. and Korea, warned:
[N]othing seems to be turning that around. Humanity is dying.
America’s birth rate hit an all-time low in 2023:
The nation’s fertility rate has declined since 1957, when there were 122.9 births per 1,000 women ages 15–44. Data for 2023 puts the current fertility rate at less than half the 1957 rate, 54.5.
But that is not the only concern that keeps Musk up at night; he also worries that if America collapses, the whole of human society will probably follow suit.
After dishing out details about DOGE’s cost-cutting mission, [host Bret] Baier took a more personal turn in his one-on-one with Musk Friday.
In addition to his concern about declining birthrates, the Tesla founder also explained his worries for America’s future.
Musk told Baier:
I worry generally about the strength of America.
America is the central column that holds up all of Western civilization… If that column fails, it’s all over.
Further:
You can’t run off to New Zealand or some other place. It’s over.
And:
So, either we strengthen that column and make sure America is strong, and we’ll be strong for a long time, or that roof’s coming down,”
Musk and others have long warned that America’s $36 trillion debt could eventually cause our country to go bankrupt, with obvious seismic—catastrophic—results across the globe.
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