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Elon Musk appeared to support the idea of disenfranchising people without children.
Responding to a Twitter thread that blamed the spread of Islam in France on “the choice of white women,” the SpaceX boss said over the weekend that “the childless have little interest in the future.”
“Democracy is unlikely to work in the long run without restricting voting rights to parents,” wrote one user. “Also helps solve the reproductive problem.”
“Yes,” Musk replied.
ELON MUSK ON BIRTH OF TWINS WITH TOP EXECUTIVES: ‘DOING MY BEST TO HELP THE PEOPLE CRISIS’
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, looks on as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center on June 16, 2023 in Paris. (Portal/Gonzalo Fuentes / Portal Photos)
The tech billionaire is a father to 10 children, nine of whom are still alive, and has previously said he is doing well [his] Part” to combat the underpopulation.
In April, he warned that a “big reckoning” was coming due to the low birth rate, responding to a tweet that US Social Security funds were exhausted earlier than a previous estimate.
The Tesla co-founder claimed that “population collapse poses a major risk to the future of civilization” and claimed in July 2022 that it was “by far the greatest threat to civilization.”
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference on innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, June 16, 2023. (Portal/Gonzalo Fuentes / Portal Photos)
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Last year he said, “Population collapse due to low birth rates poses a much greater risk to civilization than global warming.” He also wrote that he thinks global warming is “a major risk.”
According to Musk, too many people harbor the “illusion” that the earth is overpopulated “even though birth rates are so obviously heading towards a population collapse.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. birth rate remained stable in 2022, without returning to pre-pandemic levels.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk during the EEI 2023 event in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
In the US, births were in decline for more than a decade before COVID-19 broke out, and then fell by a whopping 4% from 2019 to 2020. In 2021, they rose about 1%, an increase experts attributed to pregnancies couples were trying to delay amid the early days of the pandemic.
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According to the United Nations, the world population is expected to grow by almost two billion people over the next 30 years. It hit the 8 billion milestone in November last year.
Fox News Danielle Wallace and Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.