The powers that be have been aware of the population growth problem for a very long time.
I have wondered why they allowed religion to dictate uncontrolled breeding. Why didn't "they" who are a part of religion shift into a more
conservative mode on family size at least 200 years ago?
Why is it that China with its one child policy not mandate sterilization after that one child is born? A few of those children will die and leave the
couple childless, yes, but that is all the better for the over all plan.
Which would the world rather have; plagues & wars or forced sterilization?
People get really upset when they feel that their "right" to reproduce is threatened, but they seem to accept the pain and torture that disease &
wars bring them.
There is a big problem convincing people that there really is an overpopulation problem. Your hear mindless idiots repeating the mantra that alll the
people in the world could live in Texas (or some other large state) & each have an acre of land. Thave no idea of the lay of the land or the
logistics that go along with this airy-fairy idea.