The CEO of the company is trying to get humanity off the planet.
It is more important than ever, given the fact that humanity is staring down the barrel of climate change, comet strikes, and dropping birth rates.
During an appearance at the National Academies, Musk elaborated on his plans to establish a permanent base on Mars.
Making humanity multiplanetary is one of the ways we can mitigate the civilizational risks we can.
If you wait long enough, Earth will become uninhabitable, said Musk. He said that in the long run we are all dead.
The first Atlantic crossing was terrible, Musk admitted, and the first few trips to Mars may be a bumpy ride.
At the Humans to Mars summit last year, Musk said that building a base on Mars will be very hard and dangerous.
He said that it was not for the faint of heart. You have a good chance of dying. It will be tough, but it will be great if it works out.
The view in our mirrors may not be pretty while we are on Mars. It sounds like Musk is anticipating the worst for our planet.
During this week's joint meeting, Musk argued that there were plenty of continent-level extinction events that have occurred in the fossil record.
One day, bigger rockets may allow us to save billions of people from comets or space rockets.
It is convenient that Musk says that the biggest dangers to humanity are the ones that his business interests can defend against.
The threats to our existence on planet Earth are real. Musk said that he is probably less alarmist than most when it comes to the environment because he highlighted carbon emissions in the atmosphere and the melting of the tundra.
Musk is worried about the decline of global birth rates, an underappreciated risk, with many population rates dropping with no end in sight.
Climate change, comets, and dropping birth rates are some of the things that could cause our species to extinction. That is not out of the question.
He said that the risk is not zero.
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