Population

Hartmann Report - Elon Musk, the father of eleven children, thinks that declining population is a crisis and the world needs more babies —particularly those with his DNA — or there will be a crisis. For example, he recently proclaimed:“Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming.”

Billionaire Jeff Bezos echoed the idea promoting the fallacy that more people means “more Einsteins.”

“I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins…Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy.”

The fact is, though, that countries with huge populations generally are more likely to have more slum dwellers than scientists or musicians. It’s only when people have widespread prosperity, so there’s time for a creative middle class to form, that such extraordinary people have the time to develop their talents.

This literally cancerous idea — that continual population growth is a good thing — has been with us for about 2000 years, and, while it has arguably accounted for some of the positive aspects of modern civilization, it has also left our world in a shambles...