Tesla CEO Elon Musk's grim forecast of humanity suggests that 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.
Musk's prediction was triggered by 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. "
Replying to that tweet on Friday Musk wrote: "Real issue will be an ageing and declining world population by 2050, *not* overpopulation. "
Musk also shared a Wikipedia link to an article titled, "Projections of population growth".
"Yes, demographics, stratified by age, will look like an upside down pyramid with many old people and fewer young, " the multi - billionaire entrepreneur wrote further.
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, web portal Futurism reported.
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. "
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