World in the balance: Global impact of overpopulation

I posted something on this topic in the thread linked above.

I am reposting it here.

I think there is another side to this concept of overpopulation that perhaps all of you have not considered.

Back after the second world war, when all the "enlisted" men came back to their homes and farms, the world was scarcely 2 Billion at that point; what with the loss of literally millions of people during that war. At that time more that half of those 2 Billion were literally starving and there were food shortages in many parts of the world and yet the United States government instituted laws created that literally paid farmers not to produce food. America had plenty to eat, but why would our own government pay farmers to not produce food when half the world was starving?

It is simple really, it was because of fears of overpopulation.

People have been talking about overpopulation since before the turn of the 19th & 20th centuries. World leaders (aka the money elite and future WTO) held conferences and had statisticians prepare data to project the population of the world would be by the year 2000. Estimates ranged anywhere from 5 to 8 Billion people and economists studied what the impact of that would be. Predictions were dire and economic collapse was seen as an inevitability if the world was allowed to reach such proportions.

Many policies were established and disseminated to governments everywhere through think tanks and universities. People were gradually being prepared for radical moves on dealing with overpopulation. Birth control was floated as a possible remedy to promote to the masses, but this strategy was met with fierce opposition from Religious organizations. So more subtle population control methods were brainstormed and established.

War is always one of the ways to keep people dying. Starvation of course will always be the leader because of the policy to pay farmers not to farm only megagricorporations have taken over the food supply to 90% of the population.

None of this makes any sense unless you were trying to keep the population down.

Then comes AIDS conveniently enough that guarantees to wipe out at least 1/10th of the world's population every year in an ongoing basis. What a great disease to accomplish goals that led some countries to institute policies of genocide; lest we never forget the Holocaust or the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Koreans and the Chinese.

It's just my opinion but population control seems to be a slippery slope.