Elon Musk raises a threat to humanity
Elon Musk listed his three biggest fears about the future, in which he considered the falling birth rate to be a very serious problem.
“I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the birth rate. It’s possibly the biggest threat to the future of human civilization,” said Elon Musk, the world’s richest billionaire. Mathias Dopfner over the weekend, when asked about his biggest fear.
In addition, he listed two other threats as religious extremism and uncontrolled artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk speaks in Shanghai, China, in January 2019. Photo: Reuters.
The world’s richest man has repeatedly expressed concern about the declining birth rate, which tends to increase rapidly during the “pregnancy” period due to the pandemic. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2021 report shows that the birth rate in the US dropped by 4% between 2019 and 2020, the steepest decline in nearly 50 years. This is also the period when the country recorded the lowest number of births since 1979.
“I’m really worried about the birth rate like that. That bothered me for years, because I didn’t see it tend to improve. Every year it got worse,” Musk said.
While concerned about the low birth rate, the US billionaire does not seem to be worried about death. “I definitely want to stay in good health for a long time. But I’m not afraid of death. I think death is a release,” Musk said, adding that he wants to live long enough to see SpaceX achieve its goals. suggest.
The billionaire also affirmed that he is not interested in increasing human life expectancy. “I don’t think we should try to let people live long. It makes society suffocating,” Musk said.
The declining birth rate is a matter of concern in many countries around the world. Thailand is facing the risk of becoming a “super old society” with many socio-economic consequences associated with a rapid decline in the birth rate. Russia is also facing a demographic crisis related to a falling birth rate, as the average fertility rate for Russian women is now around 1.5, well below the 2.1 minimum to maintain. population.
Ngoc Anh (According to Business Insider)
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