(ORDO NEWS) — Recently, UN reports were published predicting changes in the level of world population from 2020 to 2100.
According to experts, by 2050 more than 9.7 billion people will live on Earth , and by 2100 this figure will reach 11 billion representatives of the human race.
However, not everyone agrees with these forecasts and, for example, Elon Musk believes that the UN has an irrational view of reality, and in less than 30 years, humanity is waiting for a “population collapse”.
He is convinced that by 2050 the number of aging people will significantly outnumber the global birth rate.
“Scientific progress has led to the fact that people began to live much longer than, say, 100 years ago.
This is good and bad at the same time: we have begun to live longer, but there are too many old people on Earth, and our birth rate is declining from year to year, ”Ilon Musk commented on the report.
Musk pointed to conflicting information in the UN report: the organization recognizes the fact of the rapid aging of the world’s population, but at the same time predicts rapid growth until 2100.
It turns out that the unprecedented aging of mankind has indeed been recorded, and this is frightening.
“I know a lot of families who, having reached the age of 50, have not decided to have children.
I am sure that there are a lot of such examples and this is a real problem for our population, for our entire civilization.
The report is clearly missing something,” Musk added.
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla referred to the best-selling book 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, written by Norwegian scientist Jørgen Randers.
The author predicted that the population of the Earth will begin to decline sharply by 2040 and argued his position in detail.
“Our civilization is moving towards collapse, but no one notices or does not want to notice.
Very soon we will wake up in a world where old age will become the dominant phenomenon, and fertility will be something unusual, ”concluded Elon Musk.
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