They've been purposefully creating "shortages" of food, materials, manufacturing, distribution, and constraining the energy with "green" bullshit, and preventing growth, even planning to reduce growth.. If you look at all of the shit they're doing economically today it seems to point to them planning for a future with a smaller population. Of course they could just be consolidating control over everything so that they can then ration it all out to the population, but reducing the population is a definite goal of theirs. Perhaps even reducing the western-born population in order to replace them with the third world and Chinese population.