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Originally Posted by Mistwraith
Medical scientific progress means life expectancy rises creating a population issue.
Required - less births to cope with the numbers
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An increase in life expectancy without an increased birth-rate to compensate results in an aging population and not enough workers. This is the problem which many European countries are currently facing - they need a higher birthrate, not a lower one.
Even without the humanitarian/rights issues, a war would be a terrible way to deal with overpopulation since most of the people who died would be of working age. If you wanted to have large numbers of people killed, youd presumably be better off with something which is more likely to target the elderly than the young (eg disease).