Elon Musk, Mars, space conquest and babies. What could go wrong with these ingredients? For the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, apparently everything is wrong in this equation. The accounts do not come out for the champion of the conquest of the red planet and they do not come out on the side of the number of babies, fresh blood, which according to his forecasts he needs to populate Mars in the coming decades.
As always and through your particular twitter account, the billionaire has confessed to being very concerned about the birth rates that are currently being handled on the planet. Also because of the downward trend that is expected in a few years. And all as a result of a thread in which there was talk of a report that points to the extinction of 100% of the species as a result of the expansion of the Sun.
It is not the first time that Elon Musk has been concerned about this fact. Already on the board of directors of The Wall Street Journal from last year showed the data to viewers. An opinion that goes against many voices of the moment that point precisely to the opposite: there are too many humans in the world.
“And yet many people, even intelligent people, think there are too many people in the world and believes that the population is growing out of control. Please look at the numbers: if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to fall apart, mark my words.”
In any case, Elon Musk’s interests on the birth rate are in a higher sphere than the mundane issues of bankruptcy of the current economic and productive system. The businessman, who has already fulfilled his birth quota after already having 7 children, is more concerned about his space conquest. If there are no children, there is no manpower to bring to Mars. That is to say, there will not be enough humans for his dream of interplanetary conquest and, according to his point of view, to save what remains of our species from a planet that is doomed to extinction.
And it is not that he plans to lead it, but he does lay the first foundations for its start. Already in 2016 he set 2060 as the deadline to start managing the first human colony on Mars. In 2020 it advanced this date to 2050, a change that explained by the incipient collapse that the planet is experiencing. With this, and with the birth figures in hand, Elon Musk is not very clear that by those dates there may be millions of people willing and available to set sail for Mars and start human life on its surface. However, the plan continues to have more dark than light.
What do the birth projections say in a few years?
Let it be said in advance what Elon Musk thinks of the official UN statistics: “They are complete nonsense.” That said, according to the UN, the world population growth trend in a few years is positive. In 30 years there will be 7.7 billion more souls on earth. In 2050, 9.7 billion.
The problem? Population growth is tied to specific regions of the planet. India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States will lead the list of births.
And a quick glance gives us an important fact, most births, with the exception of the United States, are from developing countries. Even India will overtake China in due course according to UN statistics. It is these data, and the fall from grace of Europe, China and also the United States that worried the businessman.