The population has definitely ballooned. My question is why 'they' (4D STS and Consortium) would allow such a thing. Why did 'they' see this as a 'periodically necessary adjustment'? If it is true what the C's say and we are at the end of a grand cycle, perhaps it was a matter of proliferating their human crop for as big a harvest as possible before The Wave hits. Maybe its a simple matter of needing more energy to survive The Wave - sort of like stocking the pantry before winter.
With an ice age, volcanoes, earthquakes, and comets all on the table, it is possible that we are looking at mass death. There is another 'spiritual' aspect to mass death that I have been considering. My thinking here is influenced by Martin Prechtel, who wrote a wonderful book called 'The Smell of Rain on Dust'. Prechtel is half-Native, lives in New Mexico, and was trained as a village elder and shaman in Santiago-Atitlan in Guatemala before the death squads moved in. His book is written from the vantage of his shamanic training.
According to him, the recently-deceased require quite a massive and intricate 'send-off'. If this 'send-off' isn't done correctly, there is a good chance that the relative becomes a ghost. They're stuck in 'the between'. They then cause all manner of trouble for their living descendants - as hungry ghosts. For him, grief is the key - the tears wept for the relative form (to jump cultures for a moment) the River Styx. Words of praise and song and dance and feasting are also key - they call in Charon, who will row the soul to 5D without trouble. It's a specific recipe done on behalf of a loved ones' soul.
his is one understanding of one aspect of PTSD caused by war. War almost guarantees that there will not be enough time, space, resources, and cultural continuity to hold a 'send-off' for all those who died. War also could kill off elders who have a handle on the 'shamanic technology' required to help their relatives reach 5D. War also numbs, and can bury grief deep inside. So war-ghosts remain, invisible and undiagnosed, compounding on the horrors of war for their living relatives.
If above sketch is true, and there is mass death like the kind you're talking about - if it goes ungrieved, imagine the number of ghosts that would proliferate. What would the Earth be like if the population of sad ghosts exploded? They may then cause all manner of troubles for their living descendants - far too much for your average 3D modern human to handle, let alone a population mired as they would be in PTSD from a cometary impact and thoughts only of survival.
I know little of ghosts. And I'm not sure what The Wave will do. Perhaps it would simply wash it all clean.
