New World Order (conspiracy theory)

===Population control===
Conspiracy theorists believe that the New World Order will also be implemented through [[human population control]] to more easily monitor and control the movement of individuals.<ref name="Barkun 2003"/> The means range from stopping the growth of human societies through [[reproductive health]] and [[family planning]] programs, which promote [[abstinence]], [[contraception]] and [[abortion]], or intentionally reducing the bulk of the [[world population]] through [[genocides]] by mongering unnecessary wars, through [[plague (disease)|plagues]] by engineering [[emergent virus]]es and [[Vaccine hesitancy|tainting]] [[vaccine]]s, and through [[environmental disasters]] by [[weather control|controlling the weather]] ([[High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program|HAARP]], [[chemtrail conspiracy theory|chemtrails]]), etc. Conspiracy theorists argue that globalists plotting on behalf of a New World Order are [[Neo-Malthusianism|neo-Malthusians]] who engage in [[Human overpopulation|overpopulation]] and [[climate change]] alarmism to create public support for coercive population control and ultimately world government. [[United Nations]] [[Agenda 21]] is condemned as "reconcentrating" people into urban areas and depopulating rural ones, even generating a dystopian novel by [[Glenn Beck]] where single-family homes are a distant memory.

Skeptics argue that fears of population control can be traced back to the traumatic legacy of the [[eugenics]] movement's "war against the weak" in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century but also the [[Second Red Scare]] in the U.S. during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, when activists on the [[far right]] of American politics routinely opposed [[public health]] programs, notably [[water fluoridation]], mass [[vaccination]] and [[mental health]] services, by asserting they were all part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime.<ref name="Henig">{{cite book|last=Henig|first=Robin Marantz|title=The People's Health|publisher=Joseph Henry Press| date=1997|isbn=0-309-05492-3|page=85}}</ref> Their views were influenced by opposition to a number of major social and political changes that had happened in recent years: the growth of [[internationalism (politics)|internationalism]], particularly the [[United Nations]] and its programs; the introduction of social [[welfare]] provisions, particularly the various programs established by the [[New Deal]]; and government efforts to reduce inequalities in the [[social class in the United States|social structure of the U.S.]]<ref name="Rovere">{{cite book|last=Rovere|first=Richard H.|title=Senator Joe McCarthy|publisher=University of California Press|date=1959|pages=21–22|isbn=0-520-20472-7}}</ref> Opposition towards mass vaccinations in particular got significant attention in the late 2010s, so much so the [[World Health Organization]] listed [[vaccine hesitancy]] as one of the top ten global health threats of 2019. By this time, people that refused or refused to allow their children to be vaccinated were known colloquially as "anti-vaxxers", though citing the New World Order conspiracy theory or resistance to a perceived population control plan as a reason to refuse vaccination were few and far between.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/emergencies/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116182336/https://www.who.int/emergencies/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 January 2019|title=Ten health issues WHO will tackle this year|website=Who.int|language=en|access-date=19 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/world-health-organization-who-un-global-health-air-pollution-anti-vaxxers-1292493 |title=The anti-vax movement has been listed by WHO as one of its top 10 health threats for 2019 |last=PM |first=Aristos Georgiou  |date=15 January 2019 |access-date=16 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref>