Elon's IQ Shredder - by Johann Kurtz - Becoming Noble
…immigration actually accelerates the trend which it is implemented to solve. Immigration kills family formation and birthrates.
…Populating Mars - and the stars more generally - will require a huge and rapidly growing population. This will have to be achieved in the context of an alien planet, artificial habitation, and tremendous environmental pressure. To achieve such an ambition, we must therefore be ruthless in our analysis of what sustains birthrates. It should be noted that our societies are currently a very, very long way from such fecundity. Something must change.
This was a simple observation: there’s not much point in getting to Mars if we don’t have the requisite numbers of humans to fill it.
But the same is true of a second, more subtle point: the ambition to colonize Mars cannot be fulfilled unless we have massive and growing numbers of healthy, intelligent, and capable people. Terraforming and settling a planet is a monumental challenge.
Is our current civilizational configuration capable of producing such a population? No. Far from it. In fact - as we shall see again - Mr. Musk’s current approach is destroying the very thing it will shortly need.
