as for the method of depopulation, responsibility falls to each nation itself. considering the unattractive nature of populational control, national rulers continually procrastinate its governmental enforcement. after all, it is they who must answer to public displeasure. for darwin, nations that refuse to comply with population directives should face international sanction, or even military action. however, darwin questions the lethality of warfare as an effective method of populational control, it is clear from all this that the world policy would need to be supported by international sanctions, and the only ultimate sanction must be war. present methods of warfare would not be nearly murderous enough to reduce populations seriously, and even so they would take a nearly equal toll of victims from the unoffending nations. he believes the fatality of war will never quite match the fertility of life. in which case, warfare can only reduce populational growth rather than reverse demographical trends. in his book the impact of science on society, bertrand russell describes mass casualty warfare as a habitual strategy for population control. as russell recounts, there are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. the first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority. still, russell laments the lethality of previous warfare producing very disappointing results. as a solution, he proposes the use of biological weaponry to vastly accelerate population reduction.
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