Elon Musk: The Fundamental Fight Is Between Expansionists and Extinctionists

Elon Musk: The fundamental fight is between expansionists and extinctionists.

“In the extreme form of the environmentalist movement, people start to view humans as a plague on the surface of the Earth, as a fundamentally bad thing.

This implies that if all humans disappeared somehow, Earth would be better off. This is the extinctionist movement.

I think, at a fundamental level, you can think of things as a fight between expansionist and extinctionist philosophies. That's what really matters. If humans go extinct or civilization collapses, whatever policies we may have are irrelevant.

So, first and foremost, we must have an expansionist philosophy for civilization and for consciousness. We must seek to go beyond what we've done in the past, to increase the number of humans. This is incredibly fundamental. One way or another, this must happen.”

Cato Institute, June 12, 2024