BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China’s longtime one-child policy, the country’s authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try to encourage more births — tactics that range from cash subsidies to taxing…
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, has reignited global debate by declaring that concerns about overpopulation are “the most nihilistic lie ever told.” In a series of posts on X, Musk argued that the real threat facing humanity is not overpopulation but a dramatic, accelerating decline in birth rates. By calling…
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s far-right populist Sanseito party was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election, attracting many voters with its “Japanese First” platform that included calling for tougher restrictions on foreigners and the curtailment of gender equality and diversity policies. Sanseito added 14 seats in Sunday’s vote to the one…
MuTech billionaire Elon Musk has raised concerns about what he considers humanity’s most serious existential threat, ‘falling birth rates’. In a post on X, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO reacted to a user referencing a Fortune report, which claimed that women need to have an average of 2.7 children to sustain population levels. Also Read:…