From The Christian Post
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk suggested this week that countries should pay more attention to the societal problems posed by childlessness instead of painting pregnancy as a disease.
In an X post on Sunday, Musk reacted to information about fertility rates in Sweden and Great Britain. According to Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen, “Birthrates in Sweden is now at the lowest level since records began [in] 1749. Birthrates in Britain is now at the lowest level since records began in 1938.”
Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and X, shared Imanuelsen’s post and offered his thoughts by writing a caption reading, “Instead of teaching fear of pregnancy, we should teach fear of childlessness.”
The billionaire’s remarks suggesting that the low fertility rates plaguing Western countries stem from a cultural hostility toward pregnancy and child-rearing echo comments he made during an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson last month.
“We need to stop scaring women that having a kid destroys your life,” he said. “This is false. […] We terrify girls into saying that if you get pregnant, your life’s over. This is what schools teach.”
While Musk agreed that teenage pregnancies are problematic for American society, he identified having a child as “one of the most delightful, happiness-inducing things you could possibly do.” He attributed the effort to convince Americans not to have children to an “extreme” version of the “environmental movement.”
“They started seeing humans as a plague, a blight on the surface of the Earth, that Earth would be this paradise if only humans weren’t here,” Musk maintained. “We have this totally wrong idea that the Earth is overpopulated when, in fact, it is underpopulated.”
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