Elon Musk on Population Collapse
4Today at the blog I am addressing the problem that few conservatives talk about, demographic decline, in three articles. Much energies are devoted by Freedom Movement fighters to dealing with mass immigration, and this creates a mental image of surging populations, which in the very short term is true. But migrants once they come to the West, after one generation adopt the same reproduction patterns as the locals, and have less children because women want to get jobs to increase their standard of living, which is logical enough. Thus, the ruling elites who suppose that the birth crash problem can just be solved by mass immigration are deluding themselves, as the problem is simply kicked down the road.
In these lead articles today, I give a broad overview of the birth crash problem in one article, and present material in another on the way China is failing to solve its demographic decline problem. This is a major crisis, which because it is more long-term than say daily economic issues, such as the housing crisis, is less addressed. But, in the real longer term, there will be no housing crisis if present patterns continue.
Both Geert Wilders, who is set to become the next prime minister of the Netherlands, and Elon Musk, in conversations recently, both commented upon what was the greatest problems humanity faced. Wilders said that "collapse of our own culture and Western values" due to open borders and mass migration is the "biggest problem we face today." Elon Musk wrote in response that: "The biggest problem that humanity faces is population collapse." And, he is spot on.
"Geert Wilders, who is presently in negotiations in his native Netherlands to become the next Prime Minister after a populist-right surge in recent elections has been exchanging thoughts on migration and birthrates with Elon Musk.
The "collapse of our own culture and Western values" due to open borders and mass migration is the "biggest problem we face today", veteran populist and possibly next Prime Minister of the Netherlands Geert Wilders and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk agreed. The pair swapped messages on Musk owned-X (née Twitter) in response to a post about "population collapse", noting how in nations around the world the fertility rate is falling to record lows.
One nation cited was the Netherlands, which as previously reported is continuing to experience a serious downward birth trend as more couples decide to have no children at all. Elon Musk wrote in response that: "The biggest problem that humanity faces is population collapse".
Developing the point, Dutch populist Geert Wilders — who has lived under constant police protection for years after a fatwa was issued against him by a Pakistani Islamic cleric for his remarks about Islam, including that the Quran is a "fascist book" — said the birthrate crisis was being exacerbated by the migration crisis. He said: "The biggest problem we face today… is a collapse of our own culture and Western values due to open borders, mass immigration, an uncontrollable amount of non-western asylum seekers and last but not least too many weak politicians advocating cultural relativism."
Musk replied that he agreed, but that birthrates were a problem even in countries with very low migration "like Korea and Japan". Pointing to the latest statistics out of Wilders' native Netherlands, Elon — who has 11 children of his own and who has previously told Europeans to have more children — continued that: "If the birth rate stays as low as it is, the Dutch nation will die out by its own hand."
The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for the Netherlands has fallen to 1.49 children per woman, the lowest figure recorded in a bulletin from the nation's government's statistical body, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS). The number of children couples who procreate have has not changed, the Bureau said, but more couples are choosing childlessness instead.
… The body reported: "The decline was solely due to increasing childlessness; the average number of children per mother did not decrease. The average number of children per woman did, because there were fewer and fewer mothers.
The discussion summarises a rarely-heard side of the debate on demographic decline, whereby many wealthier nations are experiencing serious natural wastage of population as year on year for decades deaths have outstripped births. While governments could take a lead on allowing a society to flourish where families are economically viable and not actively punished by the state, the overwhelmingly favoured remedy for establishment politicians almost everywhere is mass migration.
A group of nations including the United Kingdom and Germany are being predominantly grown by mass migration, and the United States is in a similar situation.
Hungary in Europe is an outlier in terms of attempting to tackle demographic decline, as it reshapes the government in a bid to give nationals the space to have the families they want. As reported in 2020, pro-family policies had seen Huingary's birthrate increase five per cent in a year, thanks to initiatives like cash loans to newlyweds which are forgiven once the third child is born to the couple."
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