Elon Musk's Controversial Speech That Exposed The Biggest Deceptions in The World

i i'm worried about the birth rate which you alluded to earlier the contrary to like most people think we we have like too many people on the planet but actually this is this is an outdated view this is the the assuming that ai is fine or assuming that ai is there's a benevolent future with ai um i think that the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse i want to emphasize this the biggest issue in 20 years will be population collapse not explosion collapse the it's very easy to see what the world will look like in 20 years because humans have a 20-year boot sequence so like you say okay well who has won last year okay now you know what the world looked like in 20 years it's that easy accelerating collapse and then off the common rebuttal is like well what about immigration like from where but mars needs people you know mars these people you know there's zero people there right now so right now it's the machine planet there's only some robots there i think first of all i think humans will solve environmental sustainability in fact this is a self-fulfilling or unfulfilling prophecy we must we must take immediate and dramatic action um and we you know we and continue the momentum towards environmental sustainability and china is actually the world leader in this in fact i'm not sure how well it is known outside of china just how much china is a world leader in environmental sustainability uh it's extremely impressive i mean i think half of all the electric cars in the world were made in china last year something like that so [Music] you know i'd end it so i don't mean to suggest suggested complacency but i do think um humans can and will solve sustainability if you're an aircraft and you look down and say if you dropped a cannonball how often would you hit a person basically never in fact the stuff falling in from space all the time natural meteorites old rocket stages all the time um but nobody worries about it because the actual in fact all humans on earth [Music] could fit in the city of new york on one floor don't even need the upper floors so that's actually the cross-section of of humans as seen from earth is extremely tiny basically vanishingly small almost nothing [Music] so we need to watch out about population collapse low birth rate i think is a big risk and it's also not exactly top secret you can go and look at the wikipedia you know birthrate so and and this this is actually this this is this is definitely the civilization ends with the with a whimper not a bang uh because it would be a sad ending where the the average age becomes very high and really the youth are effectively a de facto enslaved to take care of the old people this is not a good way to end i think people are going to have to regard to some degree uh the notion of having kids as almost a social duty with within reason i mean just if you can and you're so inclined you you should otherwise civilization will just die literally the birth rate is strongly correlated to uh well it's inversely correlated to wealth inversely correlated to education um and correlated to religion the more religious you are the more kids you will have and this is true across between countries and within countries um in the u.s the highest birth rate is in utah we are going to face in the mid part of the century it and particularly the latter part of the century a demographic implosion the likes of which we haven't seen including the black plague the math is obvious when when did china ever experience a 50 reduction in its population spain growth rate of 50 percent it's it's it's as though someone went through and and killed half the population or at least of the future population um there's something better happened to turn this around sustainable energy is important uh the faster we transition to sustainable energy the less of a gamble we're taking with climate and i think there's going to be a lot of breakthroughs on the medical front particularly around the synthetic mrna you can basically do anything with uh synthetic uh rna dna um it's really it's like a computer program so i mean i think with enough with with with effort that's not too crazy you could probably stop aging reverse it if you want the the important thing to appreciate is that we are going to exit the fossil fuels era so it is it is inevitable that we will exit the phosphorylation era because at a certain point we'll simply run out of carbon to mine and burn the goal is to exit the era as quickly as possible that means we need to move from from the old goal with the pre-industrial goal goal which was to move from chopping down forests and and killing whales to fossil fuels which actually in that context was a good thing but the new goal is to move to a sustainable energy future and we want to use things like uh hydro solar wind geothermal nuclear is also a good option in places like france which don't aren't subject to natural disasters and we want to use energy sources that will be good for for a billion years so how do we accelerate this transition away from fossil fuels to sustainable era and and and what happens if we don't so if we if we wait uh and if we delay the change um the best case the the best case is is simply delaying that inevitable transition to sustainable energy so this is this is the best case if we don't take action now at the risk of being repetitive it's there's going to be no choice in the long term to move to sustainable energy it's it's total logical we have to have sustainable energy or simply run out of the other one so the the only thing we gain by slowing down the transition is is is just slowing it down it doesn't doesn't make it not occur it just slows it down the worst case however is more displacement and destruction than all the wars in history combined okay this is these are these are the best worst case scenarios so then if we have about three percent of scientists that believe in the best case about 90 7 that believe in the worst case this is why i call it the dumbest experiment in history ever like why would you do this so the the reason that the the transition is delayed or voice is happening slowly is because there is a hidden subsidy on all carbon producing activity in a healthy market if you have say 10 euros of benefit and four years of harm to society the profit would be six euros this sort of you know makes obvious sense this is where the incentives are aligned with the good future this is not this is not the case today but if you have the incentives aligned then the forcing function towards a a good future towards a sustainable energy future will be powerful in an unhealthy market you have your ten years of benefit if you're four years but the four years doesn't isn't taxed so you have an untaxed negative externality this is basically economics 101 so you have basically unreasonable profit and a forcing function to uh to do carbon emitting activity because this this this cost to society is not being paid the net result is 35 gigatons of carbon per year into the atmosphere we need to move away from this and and and have a carbon tax but this has been this is being fought quite hard by the uh the carbon producers and they're using tactics that are very similar to what the cigarette industry or the back industry used for many years what they would take the approach of even though the overwhelming scientific consensus was that smoking cigarettes was bad for you uh they would find a few scientists that would disagree and then they would say look the scientists disagree so that that's essentially how they would try to trick the public into thinking that smoking is not that bad the solution obviously is to remove the subsidy so that means we need to have a carbon tax and to make it sort of something which is neither a left nor a right issue we should make it probably a revenue neutral carbon tax so this would be a case of increasing taxes on carbon but then reducing taxes in in other places so maybe there would be a reduction in sales tax or vat and an increase in carbon tax so that uh only those using high degree levels of carbon would pay an increased tax that they need that everyone needs to take action and and care about what the future is going to hold and lead by example so even countries that that are quite dependent on on fossil fuels if they just change their tax structure they can they can move away from that in you know in a way that's not super disruptive to the economy um it's really just a question of collecting like the same amount of taxes but but weighted towards uh things that we that's that people believe are most likely to be bad instead of things that are most likely to be good um and we do this already in you know in in our tax code we tax alcohol and cigarettes much more than we tax fruits and vegetables it's just sort of the sensible things sensible thing to do and nobody you know you don't and you don't hear you know countries saying well we make lots of fruit you know we make lots of fruits and vegetables so like we want low taxes or we make lots of alcohol into background we want you know lower taxes like that's a silly debate that it's gone um and i think the same thing applies to to carbon emissions just just adjust the tax code and the right thing will happen over time and if it's graduated over time and you know it starts off small and becomes significant in the future then even if you're heavily dependent on carbon today the the that that that message of of seeing what's going to happen in the future will have a huge impact on on the way that that any given country's economy works so uh so that they will then become not dependent on carbon because of the incentive structure so i really don't think they have anything to lose here and we're anything to lose by taking action and a lot to lose by not taking action

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Id: 9IauaPnBVd4

Length: 11min 26sec (686 seconds)

Published: Sun May 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/LandscapeDesperate35]

In this video he’s shilling for china

[u/cannuckgamer]

Good video. I think he knows more than he lets on.

I wish I could say the following to him -> "Elon, I saw your video, and heard everything you had to say, but what are your thoughts of all of us living like the pioneers of old? Or living like the Native America Indians before the Europeans landed? Sure, no more technology, but perhaps a simpler way of life would be the best way to 1) not destroy our resources like we are right now, and 2) there'd be a balance in the world where mankind would work with Nature, not against it."

[u/JesusSuperFreakX]

I have always been a sceptic but the C19 saga has made me extremely cynical of wealthy people, particularly those pushing transhumanism. If he were really on "our side" he would have been 'heart-attacked' like other world leaders who were warning their citizenry of what's ahead. The fact that he's still alive and making Neuralink even more advanced should clarify on which team he is.