Elon Musk Warns Of Population Crisis In U.S., Says ‘Big Reckoning Coming’

Tokyo's skyline and Mount Fuji (back R) are seen from the I-link Town observatory during the evening hour in Ichikawa city, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo on January 7, 2023. Japan's population could dip below 50 million by 2100. PHILIP FONG/BEZINGA

Elon Musk, who has been encouraging the public to have more babies, is back with concerns about a population collapse amid a falling birth rate. 

In a tweet on Friday, Musk said that the U.S. would face consequences as a result of a declining birth rate and that “Japan is a leading indicator.”