African American billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk suggested the global elite share a common view that the human race should be drastically reduced.
Musk made the remarks during Twitter exchange Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created “Dilbert” and author, who tweeted a poll asking his followers “How many of you believe some group of elites or leftists or someone important wants to reduce the population of Earth?”
Out of 54,959 votes on Adams’ poll, an overwhelming 74.5% of respondents selected “I believe it” as their answer. “You never know” came in a distant second place with 19.4%, and “That’s nuts” came in last with only 6.2%.
In response to the poll, Musk shared an article by the New York Times titled “Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None,” featuring comments by Les Knight, the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
Knight specifically advocates “phasing out the human species by voluntarily ceasing to breed” in order to “allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health.” Fortunately, notes Knight, “crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.”
Sharing the article, Musk told Adams, “It is a very common sentiment, mostly implicit, sometimes explicit.”
It is a very common sentiment, mostly implicit, sometimes explicit https://t.co/8JUc7eDZe4
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2022
“I stipulate that people with no real power or influence do hold that view,” Adams responded.
“Apparently that triggers confirmation bias that the UN, the WEF, Bill Gates, George Soros and governments want the population to decline from current levels. This is the Right’s Drinking Bleach Hoax,” he claimed.
This is neither a “right” nor a “left” issue.
Run antivirus software in your brain.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2022
“This is neither a ‘right’ nor a ‘left’ issue. Run antivirus software in your brain,” Musk retorted.
“Are you saying people on the Left also believe Gates and the WEF want the population of America to shrink in absolute terms? If so, consider me corrected. I have only heard that from the Right,” Adams asked.
Musk pushed back on assertions that Microsoft founder Bill Gates or groups like Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum want to rid America of humans, adding that the elites are “well-meaning” and want to save the Earth from overpopulation.
“I don’t think we should divide issues semi-randomly into ‘left’ and ‘right’ tribes, as it inhibits critical thinking. The idea that there are too many people generally stems from the axiomatic flaw that Earth’s environment can’t sustain its current population,” Musk said.
I don’t think we should divide issues semi-randomly into “left” and “right” tribes, as it inhibits critical thinking.
The idea that there are too many people generally stems from the axiomatic flaw that Earth’s environment can’t sustain its current population.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2022
Musk pointed to the environmental sustainability movement, which is championed by numerous international bodies, governments, NGOs and major corporations.
“It’s not some illuminati plot to destroy humanity, but rather an extension of the well-meaning environmental sustainability movement that has gone too far,” the Twitter owner added.
He later added that he never joined the World Economic Forum for their annual meeting in Davos, Swizterland because “it sounded boring [as f**k].”
My reason for declining the Davos invitation was not because I thought they were engaged in diabolical scheming, but because it sounded boring af lol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2022
The billionaire Tesla CEO had previously warned in December 2021 that there are “not enough people” on Earth, which could threaten the existence of human civilization.
“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birthrate,” Musk said during the Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council.
“And yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control. It’s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers — if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words,” he said.
The concept of the existence of a shadowy group of elites who seek to depopulate the earth by 80 percent was first popularized by Infowars host and journalist Alex Jones in 2007 with the documentary film “Endgame,” which surmises that a one-world government is on the horizon, along with the eradication of most of the human race — a “New World Order.”
Critics of Jones say he is a “conspiracy theorist” and insist that members of the global elite do not want to secretly exterminate humans or establish a totalitarian one-world government.
