{"id":125606,"date":"2021-07-28T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/elon-musk-says-population-collapse-could-be-greatest-risk-to-the-future-of-civilization"},"modified":"2021-07-28T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:22:36","slug":"elon-musk-says-population-collapse-could-be-greatest-risk-to-the-future-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/elon-musk-says-population-collapse-could-be-greatest-risk-to-the-future-of-civilization","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says population collapse could be \u2018greatest risk to the future of civilization\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-population-collapse-could-be-greatest-risk-to-the-future-of-civilization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is absolutely correct. If anything he down played the danger.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to fewer people being born than dying, it\u2019s that, with life spans now far greater than ever before, the percentage of the population MOST in need of medical services will increase at the same time, with fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer researchers, and far more resources needed for all of it.<\/p>\n<p>To put it in a more cinematic way, think less \u201cSoylent Green\u201d and more \u201cI Am Legend\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Elon Musk tweeted Monday that population collapse could be the \u201cgreatest risk\u201d to humanity\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is absolutely correct. If anything he down played the danger. In addition to fewer people being born than dying, it\u2019s that, with life spans now far greater than ever before, the percentage of the population MOST in need of medical services will increase at the same time, with fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer researchers, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}