Dennis L. Meadows, a high-ranking authority at the World Economic Forum, honorary member at the Club of Rome, and lead for author the Club of Rome’s pro-depopulation book “The Limits to Growth,” released in 1972; believes that 86% of the world population needs to be eliminated.

In regards to the Club of Rome’s book, they write on their website: “The book contains a message of hope, as well: Man can create a society in which he can live indefinitely on earth if he imposes limits on himself and his production of material goods to achieve a state of global equilibrium with population and production in carefully selected balance.”

But the Club of Rome’s idea of “hope” includes mass-depopulation, and Meadows still espouses the same sentiment. Slay News uncovered an interview in 2017 where he calls for an 86% reduction in the world population for the greater good.

He claims that a “benevolent” dictatorship could accomplish the mass de-population “peacefully.”

“We could [ ] have eight or nine billion, probably,” he says of the world’s growing population.

“If we have a very strong dictatorship which is smart … and [people have] a low standard of living,” Meadows says as he explains how the population reduction agenda could be triggered.

“But we want to have freedom and we want to have a high standard of living so we’re going to have a billion people.

“And we’re now at seven, so we have to get back down.

“I hope that this can be slow, relatively slow, and that it can be done in a way which is relatively equal, you know, so that people share the experience.”