Elon Musk Says World's Population Is Accelerating Toward Collapse

When you read the Bible, you come to believe that God has everything under control.  The world is not going to end until He says so.

Temperatures will rise and fall.  Earthquakes will increase, famine and war will always be here.  The greedy people will get greedier, perversion will always be with us...BUT the end of the age won't happen until the appointed time.

God is the alpha and the omega....the beginning of all things and the end of all things.

But if you don't believe what your Bible says, you may have a tendency to believe that the world is careening toward the edge of a cliff and no one is behind the steering wheel....and no one seems to even care!

Elon Musk is one of the most famous businessmen of our time.  Check out what he thinks is coming.

Elon Musk usually tweets about mundane topics, from LA traffic to Tesla projects. On Thursday he was more dire.

"The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care," Tesla's CEO tweeted to his nearly 10 million followers. He pointed to a November article in New Scientist magazine titled, "The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded."

The piece, written by Fred Pearce points to Japan as a case study for what could go wrong in the relatively near future.

Elon Musk usually tweets about mundane topics, from LA traffic to Tesla projects. On Thursday he was more dire.

"The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care," Tesla's CEO tweeted to his nearly 10 million followers. He pointed to a November article in New Scientist magazine titled, "The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded."

The piece, written by Fred Pearce points to Japan as a case study for what could go wrong in the relatively near future.

Rather than a meltdown where the Earth's population outstrips the planet's ability to feed everyone, we could be headed toward a more subtle but equally disastrous outcome where our population simply does not replace itself fast enough.

"The world has hit peak child," the late Hans Rosling, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, said in the article.

Indeed, Japan's fertility rate is 1.4 children per woman, well below what is required to sustain population growth.

While Japan is perhaps the most well-known example of a country's population aging, the article in the London-based magazine also points to Germany and Italy, both of which "could see their populations halve within the next 60 years."

The article spells out some of the problems an older population might bring, including less innovation, cultural shifts and worse and more recession-prone economies.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the nation's population is roughly 325 million with a net gain of one person every 12 seconds.

However, Pearce does point out some silver linings. "Old could be the new young," he writes, adding older societies are less likely to start wars. And, he points out, fewer people on the planet would give Earth's ecosystem a breather:

"Nature, at least, would enjoy the silver lining."

The so-called population bomb has been speculated about for nearly half a century, dating back to at least 1968 when two Stanford University researchers published a book titled "The Population Bomb" that predicted mass starvation in the 1970s and '80s due to overpopulation.

Musk has been known to pontificate on theories outside the mainstream, including famously last June when he said there is only a "one in billions" chance we're not living in a computer simulation.

Here;  http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/elon-musk-the-worlds-population-is-accelerating-toward-collapse-and-nobody-cares.html

50 years ago lots of folks were concerned that we would have so many people on earth that we would all starve because the world simply couldn't feed that many people.

Today, Elon is warning that people in Japan, Europe and America aren't having enough kids to even maintain our population.

He may be onto something if you look at the Social Security charts in America.

When Social Security was put on the books it was assumed that about 30 workers would be around to support one retired worker.  Today we know that there assumptions were drastically wrong.  Now the projections are that 2 workers will one day need to support every retiree....and that math just doesn't fly.

Folks in America used to have 4-5 kids per couple.  They needed the kids for help around the farm and hopefully one or two would be around to help them in the old age...if they made it to old age.

Today, the cost of raising kids and taking them all to Disney World or skiing in Colorado has become so prohibitive that couples may only choose to have 1 or two kids.  Just look around you!  How many families do you know that have 4 kids?

Again, we have no idea if the world's population will explode or collapse...but we rest in the knowledge that God is in control and He isn't worried one single bit about anything.