Elon Musk Says Birth Control and Abortion Might Destroy Civilization in Tucker Carlson Interview (Video)
thewrap.comvia Kat Abu.)Meanwhile, Musk’s comments deserve some contextualization. His comment, “if we don’t make enough people to at least sustain our numbers, perhaps increase a little bit, then civilization’s gonna crumble,” is strange indeed considering the fact that the human population shows no signs of declining.
The opposite is true, in fact.Just to use Musk’s time frame of “the last 50 years or so,” he was born in 1972, when the number of people living was approximately 3.9 billion.
Skip ahead 51 years? The human population is expected to pass 8 billion people at some point in 2023. In other words, the number of living humans has more than doubled during Elon Musk’s lifetime.
Hardly evidence of a demographic apocalypse coinciding with the increase in reproductive freedom.Musk may have been unaware of it when he made these claims, but he was peaking to Tucker Carlson, who last year he advised fans to “have more children than you can afford.” By itself that comment is just weird, but Carlson has often expressed views in line with so-called “replacement theory,” a white supremacist conspiracy theory holding that white people are in danger of being “replaced” by other races.How are they replacing white people, you might ask?
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