Just when demographers are ringing alarm bells overpopulation, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says we need to populate our solar system. Mr Bezos was asked his thoughts humanity living in outer space in a thousand years' time. He replied: "I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have any given time 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins.…Space would be full life and intelligence and energy." He added that he wants to help "build heavy infrastructure that will be used the space entrepreneurs future generations…so that ingenuity and imagination can really be unleashed".
Mr Bezos' thoughts are echoed fellow multi-billionaire Elon Musk, owner X (formerly known as Twitter). In 2021, he said the human race: "We don't want to be one those single-planet species; we want to be a multi-planet species." Earlier this year, Mr Musk warned that: "Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming...mark these words." Mr Bezos conceives people living giant space stations. He said most inhabitants of these would visit Earth vacations. He envisions our planet returning to its pristine environment, as factories would be built space. He said they would exploit resources the moon or on asteroids instead of using Earth's.
