Something tells me? Population control won't need devious plans much longer.
If war breaks out almost anywhere at the moment? Several spots may well spark at the same time. China will take Taiwan, I predict..but not much population change there. China isn't barbaric. However... North Korea may reduce the Korean Peninsula's population by a zero or two....and could even throw one over at Japan for good measure. That'll shave another percentage point or two from the world total.
India and Pakistan are still having their LOC fights often enough to recall, they really DO mean to kill each other and peace is an illusion on the Line of Control. Pakistan and India are nuclear with an eagerness to depopulate each other. India has over a billion. There are another few percentage points to global average total, however that ends or whoever wins it.
Then we have the Middle East, and while the bodies there just aren't numerous enough to say it impacts global population in any major way? The loss of critical trade routes, resources, and a strategic nexus of the world geography WILL multiply into more death around the world, coming from hardship related directly from it.
So..the Elites need to put their feet up and take a break! It's hard to be evil 24hrs a day, after all. Let nature take its course, and we'll be lighter by a billion or two by the end of the decade. No real effort required now. Just don't interfere with events, and the oven cleans itself.
