“If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble,” according to Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” – Elon Musk. He is, of course, dead wrong. We briefly explore that in this episode, and offer our take on Musk’s stone-age solutions to traffic congestion.

We also share thoughts about several growthbusting news items:

• Recent Arctic and Antarctic Research News
• Smart Perspective on Falling Birth Rates News (in India)
• Buzzkill Condoms
• Google Displays Emissions Info
• Systemic vs. Individual Climate Solutions
• A Black Box to Record Demise of Human Civilization

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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

World Leaders COP Out – Episode 62 of GrowthBusters https://www.growthbusters.org/world-leaders-cop-out/

See How the Antarctic Is Signaling Major Climate Disruption https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-antarctic.html

Arctic Report Card: What More Rain and Less Snow in the Region Means for the Rest of the World https://www.marketwatch.com/story/arctic-report-card-what-more-rain-and-less-snow-in-the-region-means-for-the-rest-of-the-world-11639502532

Population Slowdown is Triumph of India’s Peoplehttps://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/population-slowdown-is-triumph-of-indias-people-7644983/

Time Magazine Person of the Year – Elon Muskhttps://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk/

Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an Interview with WSJ’s Joanna Stern at the CEO Council Summithttps://youtu.be/lSD_vpfikbE

Elon Musk is Wrong: We Need Smaller Families – By Olivia Nater https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/12/elon-musk-wrong-we-need-smaller-families

1 in 4 Childless Adults Say Climate Change Has Factored into Their Reproductive Decisions – Morning Consult Poll in September of 2021https://morningconsult.com/2020/09/28/adults-children-climate-change-polling/

Colbert: Don't Want to Bring a Child into This World? Try Trojan Buzzkill Condomshttps://youtu.be/nGNnK9j58Og

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Google Flights to Display Emissions Next to Every Single Flighthttps://www.treehugger.com/google-flights-display-emissions-on-every-flight-5205037

Colbert: Is Systemic Climate Action Possible https://youtu.be/rbzMvJf1Vxg

Earth is Getting a Black Box to Record Our Climate Change Actions, and it's Already Started Listeninghttps://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-12-06/climate-change-earth-black-box-recorder/100621778

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

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