A “population bomb” would lead to a worldwide collapse in humans in the coming decades and everybody would start to see the evident effects by 2050, suggests a grim forecast of humanity by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s.
Musk’s prediction came as a result of a tweet from a page called World of Engineering that said: “1950 (historical) world population – 2,556,000,053. Current world population – 7,712,343,478. 2050 (projected) world population – 9,346,399,468.”
On Friday, replying to that tweet, Musk wrote: “Real issue will be an ageing and declining world population by 2050, *not* overpopulation.” He also shared a Wikipedia link to an article titled, “Projections of population growth”.
The multi-billionaire entrepreneur further wrote, “Yes, demographics, stratified by age, will look like an upside down pyramid with many old people and fewer young.”
According to web portal Futurism, the SpaceX CEO’s theory believes that when an increasingly-elderly global population clashes with declining birth rates around the world in the near future a ‘population bomb’ would go off.
Musk first broached the topic back in 2017 when Musk replied to a publication saying, “The world’s population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care.”
Earlier this month, Musk had made the headlines for refusing to credit a Web artist’s work he shared and changing his name to Daddy DotCom on Twitter.
