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Musk Warns About Declining US Birth Rate: ‘We Just Need to Celebrate Having Kids’

Musk Warns About Declining US Birth Rate: ‘We Just Need to Celebrate Having Kids’
Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX, speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Rita Li
5/25/2022|Updated: 5/26/2022
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Billionaire Elon Musk has again sounded an alarm over the country’s dwindling birthrate, saying people should “celebrate having kids.”

The tech visionary has for years warned that population collapse is the biggest threat to civilization, yet he has recently focused more on domestic underpopulation. “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years,” Musk wrote in a May 24 Twitter post.

Rita Li
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Rita Li is a reporter with The Epoch Times, focusing on U.S. and China-related topics. She began writing for the Chinese-language edition in 2018.
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