These envirototalitarians want population control and any devious way to cause negative population growth is encouraged. In their world, if they could grow more alligators to eat people, that would be a good thing. Initiating ecology policies that cause world starvation through the collapse of the U.S. economy would be a good start. Would you expect anything less from the Culture of Death?
I am absolutely sure you are right about this. That's exactly what they want. They aren't even very discreet about keeping it a secret. There was a thread here several months ago about some scientist at a conference who admitted it publicly. The organization that was running the conference banned news cameras and other recording devices from the room in which this guy was speaking, because they had advance notice of what he was going to say.