An informative video from Dr. John Campbell about the increasing number of human deaths beyond what would normally be expected.
To get into a speculative mode: if excess deaths are what the powers that be want, is this enough? If they are, for example, looking to answer Henry Kissinger's question of how to get rid of several billion useless eaters*, the current rate of excess deaths will not reduce the population by several billions for many decades. Since climate change is projected to bring the carrying capacity of the Earth down from well over 8 billion (the current human population of the planet) to as little as one billion by 2050, seven out of eight people may need to die over the next twenty-eight years - and that's not including new births during that time, so the actual number would be even higher. A 90% target death rate would be in keeping with those numbers.
Mass starvation is inevitable under the circumstances. But starving peasants are dangerous peasants in the eyes of the elite. What other means might they employ to bring down our numbers without stirring up revolution? Climate change disasters will play a large part, clearly. Fires, earthquakes, floods, drought...all have their role to play. War, always an effective means of killing off excess population, seems a likely candidate. But it would need to be ramped up enormously from current high levels. A world war would seem in order, and it would need to take place soon.
But even a world war on the scale of the first and second world wars would be grossly inadequate. The first world war caused 20 million human deaths; the second, 50 million. A third world war for population reduction would have to kill 140 times the number of people killed in World War II at least.
This would be an event on par with the extinction of the dinosaurs. The sheer weight of rotting flesh would create disease vectors beyond anything previously seen on the planet. It would be likely to leave the planet effectively uninhabitable for larger mammals for thousands of years.
Sorry, this has been a bit dark. Just thinking out loud.
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* - "The elderly are useless eaters." - Henry Kissinger. quoted in the book The Final Days
