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In 2021, Elon Musk, now 54, made it clear that “there are not enough people” in the world, CNBC reports.
“I can’t emphasize this enough, there are not enough people,” the SpaceX founder said, adding that low and rapidly declining birth rates are “one of the biggest risks to civilization.”
“If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words,” said Musk, who has repeatedly discussed his mission to support “legion-level” numbers of offspring “before the apocalypse.”
Though Musk is publicly known to have fathered at least 14 kids, multiple sources close to Musk told The Wall Street Journal that the “true number of Musk’s children is much higher than publicly known.”
Wants to populate planet
Musk first became a father in 2002 with his then-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson. Their first child, Nevada Alexander, died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at just 10 weeks old, People reports. The former couple later welcomed twins Vivian and Griffin along with triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian before divorcing in 2008.
He later welcomed three children with Canadian musician Claire Boucher (professionally known as Grimes), including the famously named X Æ A-12 (now X Æ A-Xii), as well as Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno Mechanicus.
Around the same time, court documents revealed Musk had also secretly fathered twins, Strider and Azure, with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis in 2021. Since then, additional children have reportedly followed, including son Seldon Lycurgus and Romulus, the child Musk shares with Ashley St. Clair, 27.