Wed Dec 8, 2021 – 3:44 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk warned Monday that the world is in danger of collapsing from a low birthrate, contrary to the common belief that the world is threatened by overpopulation.
“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,” the father of six said at The Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council on Monday evening, according to the New York Post.
“And yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control,” Musk continued.
“It’s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers — if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.”
Musk’s “remarks came in response to a question about how his company’s not-yet-released Tesla Bot could solve labor issues,” the New York Post reported. The Tesla Bot is a humanoid robot that Musk has said is designed to do work that is “boring, repetitive, and dangerous.”
On Monday, he added that the Tesla Bot could be a “generalized substitute for human labor over time” — which will become increasingly important if the human labor supply falls
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