Billionaire technology Elon Musk on Monday again expressed his concern over the possibility of “collapse population” as he said: “We certainly don’t have too many people”. Responding to a tweet that mentions CEO Tesla, along with an article that argues that the environmental challenges caused by a declining birth rank, Musk wrote, “The earth can survive many times the current human population and ecosystems will be good.”
Musk, on various occasions, has caused concerns about the collapse of the population, calling it “the biggest threat to civilization”. He argues that the narrative that people do not have children because they are dangerous to the environment are “total bullshit.”
Previously in May, his tweet said Japan would “finally no more” without a higher birth rate triggered a commotion on the internet. However, most of them focused on the Japanese government because they did not do enough to overcome this problem.
Risk of stating clear, unless there is a change that causes the birth rate to exceed the mortality rate, Japan will eventually exist. This will be a big loss for the world,” he said in the May 9 tweet. The post reacted to a report that said Japan’s population dropped with a record of 644,000 to 125.5 million in 2021. The East Asian country had a negative population growth. The population has peaked in 2008 and has since declined because of its low birth rate to around 125 million last year despite the government’s warning and sporadic efforts to wrestle with this problem.
However, Japan is still the third largest economy in the world after the United States and China. Similar trends can also be seen in other countries such as Germany, Italy and South Korea.
The mainland China Birth Rates descended to the lowest record in 2021, the data showed that in January, according to the report, recorded a decrease in birth rates, the Chinese government in 2021 canceled the policy of one child in age several decades, replacing it with a limit of two children to try to avoid risk The economy of a rapid aging population.