Elon Musk is a businessman. Businesses profit from population increases and lose money when the population declines. This is simple math, the more people there are buying a product, the more profit is made from that product.
This is why Elon keeps urging people to have more children despite the obvious fact that our population is already excessive and is causing the increasing pollution of Earth and the decreasing natural habitat that we keep taking away more of from the animals by building on it.
Then people find bears in their front yards, mountain lions eating their children and pets and wonder why they’re not protected from floods, forest fires and mudslides. Blame Elon, it’s his idea to have more babies.
He wants us to have a big, thriving Mars colony, he says it’s necessary to save Mankind, he just never actually says WHY it is. I know why, it doesn’t take Einstein to see that we may use up and pollute the Earth to the point that we need to get off it to survive as a species, and Elon is just nudging us along that path a little faster, to help ensure that his childhood dream of colonizing Mars becomes reality.
I do like the plan to colonize Mars. But the fact that Elon is insane is just a bit unsettling.