Elon Musk is one of those personalities who can be right in a big way and hugely wrong.

Musk is the world’s leading critic of our global fertility crisis, and rightly so. Climate alarmism, abortion policies, a wrong vision of resource scarcity, and a generally anti-child and anti-family culture have wreaked havoc across the West (and beyond). In the simplest terms, many countries are slated to crumble in the years ahead, for they are not producing children who can support their nations’ financial burdens. Musk sees this issue clearly.

He knows that “climate change” is not the greatest threat to our planet. It is climate alarmism and related leftist ideologies that plague us like viral diseases.

Musk knows this. Even though he is seriously right, he is consequentially wrong. As profiled recently by the Wall Street Journal, Musk allegedly seems to think that producing offspring without respect to family bonds is the solution to our fertility crisis.^[1] By the Journal’s count, Musk has fathered at least fourteen children by four women—a classic case of having the right diagnosis but the wrong cure.

The solution to the real problem of global infertility is not simply to have children; it is to build families.

We know this from Scripture. God’s original marching orders for Adam and Eve were to “multiply” (Genesis 1:28). He did not communicate that they should fear having kids because He placed finite materials on the earth. No! Part of God’s creation goodness is its marvelously renewable nature: flowers grow, trees bud, and crops spring up.

In the living garden of the family, families are formed. A man and a woman are united in marriage. As God allows and blesses, children join the family. At that point, much of life’s hard work begins in earnest. Dad works very hard to provide for the family and lead it spiritually; Mom works very hard to nurture and care for the children. Father and mother are not optional and interchangeable; they are each essential and complementary.

In all this, we remember that children are not a curse; children are a “gift” and a “heritage,” and those who are given offspring are “blessed” (Psalm 127:3-5).

Today, we need to counter global infertility, yes. But the Creator’s plan is the best way forward.

By God’s grace, let us honor that plan and experience the goodness of His design.

[1] Victor Joecks, “Elon Musk Half Right About Fertility Crisis,” The Daily Signal, April 24, 2025, https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/24/elon-musk-half-right-about-fertility-rate/.