Google it. Elon is on the record of saying just that, poulation collapse is the biggest risk of the world as we know it. There is a cure: make babies, or robots…
Elon is being succinct. His conclusions are based on basic demography. There is copious data, OT here.
This journal, US-centric to be sure, but an excellent start, begins to guide:
At the core.
- globally, the people born immediately after WWII rose to power and influence rapidly because their parent’s generation was decimated and/or inhibited by that war.
-That generation, the boomers, had easy access, easy lives and thought they were enlightened. They took early control and still hold the reins, managing those badly now. That generation, mine, causes still almost irreparable harm.
- the next generation, much smaller, never has had great opportunity nor easy, cheap education. As a result, these are now notable for an unusual set of things, producing Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and countless political extremists, nominally led by elderly people like Trump and Putin and Bolsonaro, but their power bases are those Generation X.
- Generation X discontent has led to reduced fertility, reduction of political stability and massive discontent.
All those demographic factors link with near global increased life expectancy that has near global catastrophic consequences for everything from health care, education and retirement funding to retail sales and labor force reductions.
So major countries like the US have negative population growth when excluding immigration. From China to nearly every European country populations are rapidly aging and are well below replacement level. Meanwhile Generation X fights immigration because they never have had what their parents led them to expect.
That is why Elon is so correctly anxious to build a new generation that can help restore humanity and instill a perpetuating planet.
Besides, the replacement rate of buyers for everything sustainable is shrinking even while the technologies are maturing.
That is precisely why the rate of attraction to Tesla, for example is highest among very, very young people. Tesla, because of Elon, is building for the future.