THE ARCHITECTS OF DEPOPULATION

In 1974, the Nixon administration commissioned NSSM 200, a classified study examining how global population growth could affect U.S. economic and strategic interests. 

The document identified population growth in developing countries as a potential national-security concern and discussed policies involving food assistance, fertility, and economic development.

But there is an important distinction: NSSM 200 did not order the deliberate creation of famines or the systematic withholding of food aid to exterminate poor populations. Its proposals and assumptions have nevertheless been heavily criticized for treating population growth in poorer nations as a geopolitical problem to be managed.

The disturbing question is:

When powerful governments begin treating the number of people in poorer countries as a strategic variable, how easily can human lives become statistics on a geopolitical spreadsheet? 

«“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

— Albert Camus»

 THE PUPPET STRINGS