Not beyond the pale at all.
Search for ‘Apocalypse Equation’.
Chick that wrote it worked/works in the WH.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
The people who dream those dark dreams never look into the implications.
It won’t be garden world with slaves serving you grapes, it will be a dark age. Despite what post modern historians have said, the Black Death was NOT a good thing.
Ironically, it may have been ebola.