Elon Musk has repeatedly said the greatest threat to civilization is population decline [0]. It's such a diametrically opposed narrative compared to what world governments and leaders have been saying over decades now namely that over population is what we should fear.

Surely both those statements cannot be true.

It seems like the answer is of great importance since potentially the fate of humanity depends on it, yet I seldom see it discussed seriously or at least as seriously as anything else like climate change.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1483484932961972227?lang...