Elon Musk: “Civilizations Must Choose—Grow or Decline

Elon Musk: Civilizations are either growing or declining.

“Maybe the real distinction is not right or left, but is someone an expansionist or an extinctionist?

Any given civilization is not going to be exactly steady. Any given civilization is either going to be growing or declining.

And so you can divide any person's actions into expansionist or extinctionist [actions]?

Obviously, I'm super expansionist-oriented because I think that's a far more exciting future than going extinct.

It sounds obvious when you say it like that, but I still run into a lot of people who think Earth is overpopulated.

So I'm hammering this point: We're not overpopulated, we're underpopulated.”

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 26, 2024