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There are currently more than 7.5 billion people crammed onto planet Earth, and this
number is increasing at an alarming rate.
By 2030, there will be 8.6 billion of us, and by the turn of the next century, the population
will stand at 11.2 billion.
Our planet is already showing signs of struggling to keep up with human expansion, so the question
is, what can we do about it, if anything?
Scientists and governments are working hard to combat overpopulation, but if you scroll
through the internet you’ll find that there are plenty of people with their own horrifying
solutions.
Which brings us to the top ten scariest human depopulation theories.
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10.
Bill Gates and Vaccines Bill Gates has been one of the richest men
on Earth for a long time, and with great wealth comes great power and knowledge.
So, when he seemed to let slip that vaccines are used by the government to depopulate the
Earth, it seemed entirely believable that this could be happening.
It was 2016 when yournewswire.com published the shocking story with the headline, “Bill
Gates Admits ‘Vaccines Are Best Way to Depopulate.’”
The article went on to say that vaccines are designed by the government to depopulate the
world, citing a 2011 interview on CNN as proof.
Apparently, the government knows how dangerous vaccines are and they’re using them to kill
off children.
I feel like I’ve heard that theory before, don’t you?
This, thankfully, turned out to be fake news – Bill Gates absolutely did not hint that
vaccines are being used by governments to depopulate the Earth.
Gates did say that vaccines could reduce population growth, but not in the sinister way the internet
would have you believe.
Instead, Gates was talking about how a reduction in child mortality could actually reduce the
population in the long term.
9.
The Purge The Purge is a popular film franchise, set
in the US in the near future in a world where, once a year, all crime is legal.
If citizens want, they can steal, rape, and even murder.
Each film is more political and brutal than the last, with the most recent depicting a
world in which racism is rife and politicians are corrupt.
So.. kind of like a documentary instead of a fiction thriller.
The idea for the film is angled towards giving Americans an outlet for their anger, but there’s
also a depopulation angle to it.
The poor are the most vulnerable to attacks in The Purge, because rich people have the
money to protect their properties by any means necessary.
In each of the films, we see dozens of homeless and poverty-stricken people fall victim to
the wrath of the rich, which reduces their numbers year after year.
What’s scary about these films is that the first film is set in 2022.
Is it just me or do the films feel a little too real for comfort?
8.
Dietary Diseases It’s no secret that the world is getting
fatter.
In fact, the average adult is three times more likely to be obese today compared to
1975.
The US, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia are the biggest countries that are amongst the most obese,
and they’re seeing a huge spike in dietary diseases, like diabetes.
Diabetes can be deadly, and as such we’re seeing a rise in dietary-disease related deaths,
but who’s to blame?
Could it be that we’re being set up to put on weight to shorten life expectancies?
Some people actually think so.
There is a popular theory online that public relations and social engineering are being
used to change our understanding of what food actually is.
We’re eating more junk food than ever and people believe that the powers that be want
it that way.
So, the next time you’re chowing down on a cheeseburger, take a second to consider
whether you actually wanted it, or whether you’ve been tricked by “The Man” into
thinking you did.
7.
Empowering Women This might not sound scary to you, dear viewer,
but sadly, there are plenty of people out there who think that empowering women is a
terrifying thought!
But, female empowerment might actually be the key to getting a grip on our population
problems.
Women in poorer parts of the world statistically have more children than women in wealthier
countries.
The average number of children per woman in Niger, West Africa is 7.1, whereas in the
UK that number is 1.7.
Any guesses why that might be?
Ok, I’ll tell you – it’s partly down to education.
Studies have shown that women with access to a better education tend to marry later
and have fewer children.
The children that they do have also tend to be healthier.
In fact, it’s been shown that for every one additional year of education for women
of reproductive age, child mortality decreases by 9.5 percent.
And, as we learned from Bill Gates earlier in this video, lower child mortality rates
can actually reduce the population in the long term.
6.
The Thinning Another movie now, with another terrifying
way of depopulating the planet.
The Thinning is set in 2039 in a world where global warming has made parts of the world
unlivable and the Earth’s resources are depleted because of overpopulation.
In order to save the planet, the United Nations declares that every country must cut its population
by 5% every year.
It’s down to each country to decide how they want to do it – some nations kill their
elderly and others impose a one-child policy, but the US chooses aptitude tests known as
The Thinning.
These tests are taken each year by kids in 1st to 12th grade, and the lowest scorers
are executed, or rather, you find out later in the movie that they are just enslaved underground
to do slave work, like making cellphones for 16 hours a day..
Oops, spoiler alert?
Either way, pretty brutal, huh?
Though it does open up a pretty interesting discussion.
Would a world full of nothing but intelligent people be a utopia?
Does intelligence equate to humanitarianism?
Or are intelligent people more prone to being narcissistic?
We want to know what you think, so drop a comment below of your theory!
5.
Inferno It’s not just films that seem to be good
sources of depopulation theories - books also have some interesting ideas, and this one
is particularly terrifying.
Dan Brown’s Inferno is the third book in the series that gave us The Da Vinci Code
and Angels and Demons.
In it, a crazy biotech billionaire believes that overpopulation is a major threat and
that The Black Death was what gave the world the breathing space to create the Renaissance,
so he decides to do something about it.
His plan is to create a big poison bomb which will kill half of the world’s population.
Seems a little overdramatic to me, but ok.
The book was made into a film if you’re not a fan of reading, but be warned – it
got some pretty harsh reviews for being kinda dull.
Maybe it’s a trick and they’re tackling depopulation by boring people to death?
4.
Wipe out Suburbs If you live in the suburbs or in rural areas,
you might want to look away now because this next theory is bad news for you.
According to E.O.
Wilson, a leading biologist and theorist, the answer to our overpopulation issues is
to empty half of the entire planet of humans.
He suggests turning the countryside, small towns and villages into ghost towns so that
plants and animals can thrive just as they did before us people came along and changed
everything.
Don’t panic just yet, it’s not all as gloomy as it sounds.
In his book, Half Earth, Wilson suggests that by moving everyone into cities, we may be
able to save the planet.
That might sound bonkers but this is already happening.
People are moving out of villages and other rural areas all over the world in favor of
living in big cities.
This book could simply speed up the process, which might just be the key to fixing the
planet before it’s too late.
3.
Chemtrails Ok, this one might sound a bit wacky, but
bear with me.
Do you know those white lines that trail behind the jet engines of planes?
Well, it turns out that quite a lot of people believe that they’re evidence of our governments
controlling the weather or poisoning the environment – potentially to depopulate the world.
The reason this theory is worth paying attention to is that governments of the world actually
are playing God with the weather and our environment.
The Leningrad Institute of Rainmaking, for example, was established in the Soviet Union
way back in 1932, and Chinese authorities used a process called cloud seeding in 2008
to make sure that the Olympic Games they were hosting weren’t washed out by rain.
Geo-engineers are now testing a new process which uses atmospheric aerosol injections
of tiny reflective particles to reduce how much sunlight reaches the earth in an attempt
to cool down the planet.
2.
China’s One-child Policy China is the most populated country in the
world, with more than 1.3 billion people calling the Asian country home.
China has known for a long time that this is an issue, so in 1979 the government introduced
a one-child policy which limited Chinese families to having, you guessed it, one child.
There were exceptions in place, such as rural families being allowed a second child if their
first was a daughter, but in general, the government was strict about limiting the number
of births.
The way in which this policy was enforced was brutal at times, and provincial governments
had the power to force women to have abortions and couples to undergo sterilization.
And if a couple dared to violate the policy, they were given a huge fine.
This policy was in place all the way up to 2015, and if our population continues to grow
at a fast rate, who knows where else this policy might pop up.
It’s estimated by the Chinese government that 400 million births were prevented, but
there are no figures on how many lives were ruined by fines and forced sterilizations.
1.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is
a scary-sounding environmental project which is promoting the gradual extinction of humankind.
Their plan is to talk people out of reproducing so that we eventually die out without the
need for any purge-like killings.
The aim of this movement is to prevent the destruction of the planet because frankly,
we’re killing it.
Formed in 1991, the group’s leader believes that a drastic reduction in our population
is the only way to stop the issue of animal extinction and the scarcity of resources.
The group might actually have a point, but that doesn’t stop them from being super
creepy.
I mean, their tagline is “May we live long and die out”.
Erm, ok..
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