Musk: Birth Control and Abortions Threaten Civilisation
Even the CEO of Twitter and the second-richest person in the world knows it.
In a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson last week, Elon Musk said birth control and abortions endanger the future of human existence and the growth of civilisation.
He was discussing whether extraterrestrial life exists – to which he responded by saying he has “seen no evidence of aliens” – before delving into the topic of human life and how humans take life on earth “for granted”.
Low Birth Rates
Musk addressed the issue of decreasing birth rates – an issue he has been vocal about in the past – and said he was concerned about the example of Japan having twice as many deaths as births in 2022.
But with certain modern-day methods so easily at our disposal, reproduction can now be divorced from the procreative act. Musk said:
“In the past, we could rely upon simple limbic system rewards in order to procreate, but once you have birth control and abortions and whatnot, now you can still satisfy the limbic instinct but not procreate.”
“We haven’t yet evolved to deal with that because this is all fairly recent… the last 50 years or so, for birth control.”
The popularity and availability in recent decades of abortion, contraception and other artificial forms of birth control incentivise sexual freedom with no consequences. In fact, consequence is recklessly overlooked – whether a single child or the future of mankind is concerned.
Civilisational Decline
Musk then warned that the collapse of civilisation is looming if birth rates continue to drop, noting that there have been many examples of a rise and fall of world civilisations throughout history, from the ancient Egyptians to Rome.
“I just think we should not assume that civilisation is robust… There’s sort of a life cycle arc to civilisations, just as there is to individual humans.”
“If we don’t make enough people to at least sustain our numbers, perhaps increase a little bit, then civilisation is going to crumble.”
Referencing a line from the T.S. Eliot poem, The Hollow Men, Musk suggested that civilisation may not end in a blaze of glory but through a gradual, dreary demise.
“The old question of, ‘will civilisation end with a bang or a whimper?’ Well, it’s currently trying to end with a whimper in adult diapers.”
A Yahoo article and many on social media have pointed out that despite Musk’s comments on population decline, global population has increased significantly in the last 50 years from 2.5 billion to 8 billion. However, a United Nations source – which the article referenced but failed to mention this next detail – stated that the overall growth rate is slowing, with estimates that it will take longer for the global population to reach 9 billion than it did to reach 8 billion from 7 billion. Population growth is generally and increasingly concentrated in the developing world, particularly in sub-saharan Africa, where the population is estimated to double by 2050.
After all, civilisation can only grow and survive through procreation. How long will it last in a society – particularly Western society – where approximately 63 million babies have been killed through abortion since the 1973 ruling of Roe v. Wade? Where abortion ends almost one million unborn lives in the United States alone every year?
Morals and Ethics
Elon Musk himself has 10 children from multiple relationships, some through IVF and surrogacy.
He may not be perfect, but Musk remains one of the few public figures today – and perhaps the only man of his position – to raise awareness of low birth rates and express concerns about the wider effects of abortion and birth control.
However, he did not address the underlying moral and ethical issues of abortion and contraception.
From a Christian standpoint, the sexual revolution has distorted the beauty, purpose and sacredness of sex, sabotaging God’s plans for natural marriage, family and sexuality – plans that He mysteriously and wonderfully designed. The revolution’s selling points of liberation, unaccountability and zero-commitment have encouraged society to treat the life of an innocent unborn child as a mere inconvenience that can be suppressed or discarded at will.
Let us pray to God for the end of abortion and the sexual revolution, which leave detrimental impacts on society and the individual soul. It may be the only way to rebuild a physically and spiritually dying civilisation.
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Nicole, thank you, a great piece and a salute to ‘honesty’ on the part of Musk. One facet of all this I did not pick up in your report though is that the decline in grow rate is focused don the west, not the developing world that, I think, is still growing strong.
Hi Jim, yes indeed – thank you for pointing that out and sorry to miss that! Population growth is generally and increasingly concentrated in the developing world, where these methods aren’t as readily available (or maybe even thought about as much). It’s disheartening to see the state of much of Western society and its disregard for the innocent and vulnerable unborn child.
Nicole, thank you for bringing us back to the real tragedy in all this – the horrific abortion statistics you quote.
You can add China to those Western nations, Jim. Her population just shrank by nearly one million people last year, the first decline in 60 years since the famine associated with Mao’s disastrous “Great Leap Forward”. Just as critical is the fact that China’s population is also ageing rapidly, both of these issues exacerbated by their failed one child per family policy.
In fact, projections show China’s population could be reduced by half by the end of the century.
And Russia’s population is also in serious decline, dropping by over 500,000 last year.
But countries like the US, the UK and Australia are not seeing a decline. They are either flatlining or growing slowly. But in all cases the birth rate, coupled with longer life expectancy, is creating pressures on the economy and services.