The dangerous myth of population growth, how billionaires are leading us astray.

Elon Musk, the father of 11 children, thinks that declining population is a crisis and the world needs more babies, particularly those with his DNA, or there will be a crisis.

For example, he recently proclaimed, population collapse due to low birth rates is a much

bigger risk to civilization than global warming. Billionaire Jeff Bizos echoed

the idea of promoting the fallacy that more people means more Einstein's. Einstein's.

Quote, I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system.

If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozart's and a thousand

Einstines.

Our solar system

would be full of life and intelligence and energy." The fact is though that countries

with huge populations generally are more likely to have more slum dwellers than

scientists or musicians.

It's only when people have widespread prosperity, so there's time for a creative middle class

to form that such extraordinary people have the time to develop their talents.

The literally, this literally cancerous idea

that continual population growth is a good thing,

has been with us for about 2,000 years,

and while it has arguably accounted for some of the positive aspects of modern civilization,

it has also left our world in a shambles.

Nonetheless, its official doctrine within the Catholic Church

is a tiny slice of Orthodox Jews and Hindus and major parts of Islam. As I wrote

here last week because Christianity and Islam are evangelical they are constantly

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