I Welcome A Birth Rate Collapse

Elon Musk whined again the other day. It’s part of his long-running complaint that the birth rate is declining, and that is scarier than climate change.

His cult followers agree.

Me? I disagree. I welcome a birth rate and population collapse.

At the current trend, population predictions are that we’ll hit 9.7 billion humans around 2050. I don’t know what Musk is complaining about; the global birth rate is exceeding its death rate, and the world is continuing to birth more humans than are dying.

That’s how we maximize shareholder wealth, force births!

Perhaps he’s concerned with the birth rate in wealthy nations where the death rate per 1000 people is greater than the birth rate. That means more humans are dying than are being replaced.

Take a look at Germany, where my lineage hails from, its birth rate is 9.3 children per 1000 people. Compared with the death rate of 11.6. Germany’s population is contracting.

There are plenty of young couples who are still having sex but not having any children.

Good, I say!