Tesla CEO Elon Musk warns ‘Japan will lose almost…’

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and

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has issued a stark warning about Japan. In a post on microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter), the tech billionaire wrote: “Japan will lose almost a million people this year.” In the post, Musk said that this demographic was set in motion half a century ago adding that the population decline in the country “has nothing to do with AI.” “AI is the only hope for turning this around,” the tech CEO further stated.Elon Musk was responding to an X post that said: “Japan's population falling with 900,000 more deaths than births in 2024”.

Elon Musk: Overpopulation is the most nihilistic lie

This is not the first time, Elon Musk has voiced his concerts against the rising population decline across the world. Musk, who has 14 children with five different women, has often said that having a big family is his way of contributing to the solution. In a latest post, he said that “Overpopulation is the most nihilistic lie ever told”.

He has advocated for policies that encourage higher birth rates, particularly in aging societies like those in Europe and Japan, where low fertility is already impacting economic growth.In the year 2022, he called population collapse a bigger danger than global warming. "Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming," he wrote in a series of tweets. "Mark these words," he wrote in another. Also went on to add that this in no way means that global warming is not a threat. "(And I do think global warming is a major risk)," he added.In June this year, he wrote that "People who have kids do need to have 3 kids to make up for those who have 0 or 1 kid or population will collapse”.