If you want to reduce the size of a population, and you can pull strings at international scale (as is the case with the institutions I referenced), you have a few options in targetting that population:
a) war/genocide
b) famine/food crop failure
c) birth control
Which of these is the most palatable to the Western moral authority mindset, and most likely to gain popular support among the classes with the most democratic agency? You won't have feminists calling for outright war in order to de-populate your targetted society - you will have them supporting population-control if you couch the argument as 'women expressing agency over their bodies'. (note: I personally 100% agree that women should have full agency over their bodies - just like men should, too, be able to avoid going to war if they desire...) Plus, birth control means more sex, and everyone likes that - so you can easily get buy-in by your targetted population, too. At least, a little easier than the war option.
The premise is the same for all cases: someone 'in authority' has decided that a population must be culled. The only thing that differs is the means by which this is achieved.
It has already been demonstrated that the planet can actually support us all. We are suffering because we, as a species, cannot manage what we've got. We, as a species, are mis-managing things - we could be doing a lot, lot better. And unfortunately there are power structures out there which would rather not manage things, and instead just solve the problem by a)/b)/c), or all of the above.
That will change - not by people demanding 'culling of other lesser populations', but by actually caring for other populations, and developing the technology and management structures required to support their lives ... Would you be outraged if China called for all Westerners to be sterilized in order to prevent population explosion? Are you outraged about the genocide of Yemen, because someone decided 'there are too many lower humans living there'? Or, have you decided 'your team' is more deserving of the future of humanity, somehow? Our real problem lies in the answers to those questions, not in the ability of the planet to support us all ..
a) war/genocide b) famine/food crop failure c) birth control
Which of these is the most palatable to the Western moral authority mindset, and most likely to gain popular support among the classes with the most democratic agency? You won't have feminists calling for outright war in order to de-populate your targetted society - you will have them supporting population-control if you couch the argument as 'women expressing agency over their bodies'. (note: I personally 100% agree that women should have full agency over their bodies - just like men should, too, be able to avoid going to war if they desire...) Plus, birth control means more sex, and everyone likes that - so you can easily get buy-in by your targetted population, too. At least, a little easier than the war option.
The premise is the same for all cases: someone 'in authority' has decided that a population must be culled. The only thing that differs is the means by which this is achieved.
It has already been demonstrated that the planet can actually support us all. We are suffering because we, as a species, cannot manage what we've got. We, as a species, are mis-managing things - we could be doing a lot, lot better. And unfortunately there are power structures out there which would rather not manage things, and instead just solve the problem by a)/b)/c), or all of the above.
That will change - not by people demanding 'culling of other lesser populations', but by actually caring for other populations, and developing the technology and management structures required to support their lives ... Would you be outraged if China called for all Westerners to be sterilized in order to prevent population explosion? Are you outraged about the genocide of Yemen, because someone decided 'there are too many lower humans living there'? Or, have you decided 'your team' is more deserving of the future of humanity, somehow? Our real problem lies in the answers to those questions, not in the ability of the planet to support us all ..