> It bothers me too, why would they want depopulation.. I have two semi workable theories that fit what's going on. Killing off pop only makes sense if the world is heading for calamity, like Kerrington event that will stone age us and we need reduced pop to survive as a species on severely limited resources... Or if we have peak oil /energy and we can no longer have the grace of cheap energy out of the ground to support forever growth. To save us from constant war and starvation of ever dwindling food and goods the powers that be will reduce it now. We have to go back to near preindustrial population to have sustainable lives. It would explain the nonsensical green energy policies and global warming bs and a lot of other dumb bs forced on us by our government, and china buying every ounce of energy and food they can.