All is not always as it seems.
Agreed...there is of course the conspiracy theory that goes along the lines of malicous and deliberate population control in the 3rd world...the old 'population bomb' doomsayer BS from the 60s and 70s...but the far more likely scenario is simple corporate greed and market manipulation..with the deaths of faceless millions simply acceptable when it's not your family/friends doing the suffering.
I long ago came to the conclusion that not only are things not
always as they seem they are in fact
never as they seem.
Be it second hand smoke, global warming, peak oil, DDT, environmentalism...you name it...they have all been captured by vested interests who loudly proclaim their position and work very hard at hiding the real story...hiding the science that shows them to be less than honest.