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CNN News Aug. 30, 2022

Elon Musk thinks the population will collapse. Demographers say it's not happening | CNN

Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted, not for the first time, that "population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming." Climate change is a serious problem facing the planet and experts say it's difficult to compare problems.

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