Elon Musk Rightly Sounds the Alarm on the Global Fertility Crisis, by Mark Haas

By Mark Haas, Crisis Magazine, Sept. 25, 2025

Mark Haas is a Catholic composer and speaker. He serves as the Director of Music at Ave Maria Parish in Ave Maria, FL. Mark lives in Ave Maria with his wife and their seven original compositions. Visit his website at www.markhaasmusic.com.

The world continues to reap the bitter consequences of being increasingly closed to family and children. A return to the Church’s teaching on openness to life is the only way forward.

Elon Musk has never been one to shy away from controversial statements. One of his most consistent warnings in recent years has been a warning about the collapse of global birth rates. Recently, he posted a striking map of fertility data from around the world, underscoring what demographers and economists increasingly recognize: the problem facing humanity is not overpopulation but rather underpopulation.

This stands in stark contrast to the narrative that dominated the last half of the 20th century. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb became a bestseller. It predicted catastrophic famine, resource depletion, and societal collapse due to runaway population growth. These dire prophecies shaped policy and culture for decades, inspiring everything from aggressive sterilization campaigns to China’s infamous “one-child policy.” Yet today, Ehrlich’s predictions have been concisely expunged by reality. Far from facing a population explosion, the world is heading toward population decline. …

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