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According to Musk, the biggest risk to civilization is not global warming, it is…

Elon Musk thinks global warming is a major risk to civilization, but is it the biggest?

August 26, 2022 / 12:32 IST
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Elon Musk thinks global warming is a major risk to civilization, but is it the biggest? No, at least not according to the billionaire. For him, that dubious distinction goes to the population collapse that, he thinks, will be brought about by falling birth rates.

Musk, who has nine children of his own, tweeted his take on falling birth rates this morning. But this is not the first time the 51-year-old chief executive of Tesla has expressed concerns about what he calls the global underpopulation crisis. It’s a topic he has discussed several times in the past – most recently when news broke that Musk secretly had twins with a top Neuralink executive.

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“Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,” Elon Musk tweeted this morning. “Mark these words,” he said in a follow-up tweet, adding: “And I do think global warming is a major risk.”
The entrepreneur had expressed similar sentiments back in July, after it was reported he had twins with Shivon Zilis, an executive at Neuralink.

"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis," tweeted Musk.

"A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far," he added.