{"id":320197,"date":"2024-10-13T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=320197"},"modified":"2024-10-10T22:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T03:40:28","slug":"elon-musk-having-child-delightful-possibly-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/elon-musk-having-child-delightful-possibly-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: &#8216;Having a child is one of the most delightful&#8230; things you can possibly do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1843375397024485778\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent interview<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk discussed the problematic trend of declining birth rates worldwide and said that society needs to stop teaching women to be scared of having babies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe terrify girls, [saying], \u2018If you get pregnant, your life\u2019s over.\u2019 This is what schools teach. I agree we should not have teenage pregnancies, but actually having a child is one of the most delightful, happiness-inducing things you can possibly do,\u201d Musk said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Over the past few years, Elon Musk has frequently<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/elon-musk-abortion-birth-control-threaten-humanity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoken out against abortion and birth control,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> calling them <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/elon-musk-low-birth-rates-risks-civilization\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threats<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the future of humanity and civilization. In his recent two-hour long interview, Musk again voiced strong concerns with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/population-groups-fertility-rates-fewer-people-developing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">declining birth rate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> worldwide, and described the fallacy of anti-natalist ideas which have infiltrated the education system and broader society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musk believes that Europe is facing population collapse, because its birth rate is half its replacement rate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, at a most fundamental level, unless Europe has a birth rate at least roughly equal to replacement rate, it is in population freefall, population collapse,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Elon Musk is all in.<\/p>\n<p>(0:00) Elon Musk Is All in on Donald Trump<br \/>\n(6:35) Providing Starlink to Victims of Hurricane Helene<br \/>\n(9:22) If Trump Loses, This Is the Last Election<br \/>\n(21:49) The Epstein and Diddy Client List<br \/>\n(33:38) Vaccines<br \/>\n(35:49) The Movement to Decriminalize Crime\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jNqB1ThqQz\">pic.twitter.com\/jNqB1ThqQz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1843375397024485778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Musk is not just concerned with Europe\u2019s declining birth rate. He acknowledged Carlson\u2019s comments that the \u201cAmerican government seems pretty committed to making fewer Americans\u201d and that it is spreading \u201ca lot of fertility propaganda.\u201d A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fewer-americans-children-pew-research-study\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent Pew Research Center study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> revealed that fewer Americans are having children than ever before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musk had a term for this anti-natalism mindset in America as well as in Europe: <em>civilizational suicide<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Musk, the idea that the world is overpopulated is a misanthropic myth. \u201cWe have this totally wrong idea that the earth is overpopulated, when in fact it is underpopulated,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musk said he believes the earth could double or even triple in population, and would still be able to sustain humanity. He feels a growing population does not harm the earth or humanity, but rather enables progress. Musk said that he would like to address the education system and teach men and women about the good of children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think we should expand the human population and increase the scope and scale of consciousness so we could better understand the nature of this universe, this wonderful universe, and all the amazing things,\u201d Musk said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/resist-pressure-to-dispense-the-abortion-pill\/\"><b><i>Urge Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and other major chains to resist pressure to dispense the abortion pill<\/i><\/b><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk discussed the problematic trend of declining birth rates worldwide and said that society needs to stop teaching women to be scared of having babies.\u00a0 \u201cWe terrify girls, [saying], \u2018If you get pregnant, your life\u2019s over.\u2019 This is what schools teach. 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