Absolutely.

The other option is 8B vicious predators without food, electricity etc...

Think about what happens if the PTB fail in exterminating us before the lights go off. There won't be 911 when the bad guys show up looking for food - or a bit of forced action.

If you read your history children were favoured during famines. See the famine that took place after the Russian revolution. Cannibalism was wide spread