Subjects / Climate
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“Yes. It would only take tiny adjustments to prevent global warming or global cooling for that matter. Earth has been a snowball may times in the past.”
— Elon Musk, 3 November 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We should expand the scope and scale of consciousness, whether silicon or carbon, to understand the universe…”
— Elon Musk, 17 September 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Also nuclear is vastly better for global warming than burning hydrocarbons for energy”
— Elon Musk, 6 March 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We should be much more worried about population collapse Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming”
— Elon Musk, 18 January 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Looks about right. Ice mining/refining on Mars & maximizing total system efficiency will be hard. CO2 is easy, as Mars atmosphere is mostly that. Also has good amount of N2, which is important for life.”
— Elon Musk, 7 May 2020 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Correct, pure electric. Wish orbital rockets could be so too, but there’s no escaping Newton’s Third Law. SpaceX is already developing high efficiency CO2 capture with H2O to form liquid CH4 (methane) & O2. Critical for propellant production at Mars Base Alpha.”
— Elon Musk, 10 June 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Calling this cueless would be generous. Much less energy required for lithium-ion batteries & Gigafactory is powered by renewables anyway.”
— Elon Musk, 20 June 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“First approximation of CO2 is production cost, factoring in energy source, so Model 3 obv less CO2 to produce than $35k gas car by a lot”
— Elon Musk, 20 June 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive