Mars needs colonizers: Musk hit the UN because of the birth rate

The billionaire called the United Nations projections of overpopulation “complete nonsense” and stressed that there may not be enough people either for the Earth or for the colonization of Mars.

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As evidence, he cited articles about the fall in the birth rate in the United States and that by the end of the century the population of the largest countries in the world will greatly decrease.

He suggested multiplying last year’s birth rate by the expected one. lifespan.

“We should be much more worried about population collapse,” the billionaire said.

According to the data Musk cited in the links to the main tweet, the birth rate in the United States has reached another record low, falling by 4% in 2020, NPR writes.

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In addition, the BBC reports that by the end of the century, the population of 23 countries, including Spain and Japan, will be halved. The country is also facing a sharp aging of the population.

In 2021, about 800 thousand children were born in Japan, whose life expectancy is 85 years old, that is, the future population will be only 68 million, Musk noted.

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This figure is almost half the current population of 126 million, the well-known billionaire calculated. It means a lot ghost townshe emphasized.

Recall that earlier Elon Musk proposed a plan on how to save humanity from mass extinction on Earth.