Elon Musk and Greta Thunberg: strange bedfellows

Elon Musk and Greta Thunberg: strange bedfellows

“People who have kids do need to have 3 kids to make up for those who have 0 or 1 kid or [the] population will collapse,” Elon Musk recently wrote on X, in response to a post by the influencer Mario Nawfal warning that “if things continue as they are, humans have their days numbered.” This is increasingly the tenor of the right-wing discourse around declining birth rates: it is not enough to feel serious concern about the consequences of fewer h…