"Roman Club Plan on Mass Depopulation of People"(video)

In 1972, the Roman Club published a study The Limits to Growth, which warned that the current trends in population growth and economical expansion were unsustainable and would yet lead to social decline unless measures were taken to reduce population growth and economical expansion. The study argued that the global population, if allowed to proceed increasing without control, would yet fall due to a combination of land and food shortages, depleted natural resources and pollution. The study suggests that in order to avoid the inevitable and uncontrolled fall of the population, humanity should work rapidly to accomplish a "balance state". This "balancing state" would be the point where the birth rate is equal to the mortality rate and the capital investment rate is equal to the capital depreciation rate. The study concludes that

Balance would not be free from force due to the fact that no society can be free from pressure. Balance would require trade in certain human freedoms, specified as producing an unlimited number of children or consuming uncontrolled amounts of resources.

"The goal of limiting growth would be difficult, but not impossible. The course of action is clear and the essential steps, although fresh to human society, are within the limits of human capabilities.

"Planet can hold about a billion people. possibly 2 billion, depending on how much freedom and how much material consumption you want. If you want more freedom and more consumption, you request less people. And vice versa, you can have more people, I mean, we can have up to 8 or 9 billion, most likely if we have a very strong dictatorship. But we want freedom... We'll have a billion people. And now we have seven, so we gotta go downstairs. I hope it can be slow, comparatively slow and that it can be done in a way that is comparatively equal, so that people share experience and we have not had any rich people who effort to force everyone else to deal with it... It's beautiful pessimistic hopes, but that's what's coming."