Hi Friend,

I’m Olivia, the new Communications Manager at Population Connection. Several of you wrote to us recently concerning Elon Musk’s absurd claims about “population collapse,” so I thought you might be interested in reading this letter I recently sent to him.

Dear Mr. Musk,

You're wrong about population.

Your work on electric cars and commitment to renewable energy are commendable, but you are deeply wrong about population. You’ve repeatedly expressed concern that our global population will “collapse” due to declining birth rates, stating that this represents the “biggest threat” to civilization, exceeding even the threat of climate change. But these views are misinformed and harmful.

First of all, while at Population Connection, we would welcome a less-crowded future, our population is nowhere near decline, let alone collapse. It is still growing by around 70-80 million people every year, and according to new projections by the United Nations Population Division, there’s only a 50% chance that it will stop growing before the end of the century. The population trajectory considered most likely to come true shows a peak of 10.4 billion people by the 2080s, with no further change through 2100. ...

Continue reading the full letter here!

Please let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback—I would love to hear from you at [email protected]. I'll report back if we receive a response from Mr. Musk.

Warm regards,

Olivia Nater
Communications Manager