“How could they be so stupid.”
Problem is they are not stupid, the powers that rule the world know exactly what they are doing. It is all geared towards a Great Culling. Laws and the justice system, environmental policy, economic policy, foreign policy, Energy policy, Health policy, Etc. All geared towards a mass culling of the human species.
And it is working...
The Roman emperor Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck, that he might cut it off.
And here we are, with a global political class composed of Caligulas.