Now here is a nightmare scenario that gets completely ignored.

It's right out of Soylent Green.

China's population control policy in action:

The AP article was published toward the end of a 20-day campaign, in heavily populated Puning County in Guangdong Province, to sterilize men and women who were accused of violating national birth control policies. In the village of Daba, a physician boasted that his surgical team was working non-stop from 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 AM the following day. On April 12, the fifth day, Puning officials announced that they were already halfway to their goal of 10,000 sterilizations.


The recent campaign in Puning, during which thousands of Chinese citizens were driven like livestock into family planning centers, was no anomaly. In Shandong, 7,000 women were sterilized by force in 2005, and Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer, spent years in prison for denouncing the involuntary surgical procedures.

"Driven like livestock"....you sometimes get the feeling that some Americans involved in Planned Parenthood would think that would be a good starting policy.

Communist regimes are expert at creating real life science fiction scenarios based on "science":

The one-child policy was originally designed as a trade-off between material progress and the fundamental human right to raise a family. Limits to Growth, the notorious 1974 report by the Club of Rome about “overpopulation” and scarce resources, was based on wild assumptions and sketchy data. Its alarmist predictions were backed, however, by state-of-the-art computer modeling, which so impressed a visiting systems control specialist from China that he went home and designed a program to make projections about the Chinese population. The apocalyptic scenario that he presented to Communist Party officials left only two alternatives: population control or disaster. Chinese leaders quickly and enthusiastically embraced these findings of “Western science,” which incidentally shielded them from responsibility for economic failures. From then on, population was to blame.

And there is a real cost:

The human costs of the one-child policy have been incalculable. Huo Datong, a psychoanalyst who trained in France and practices in China, says that “the trauma of the only child is the major challenge confronting China.” In a book titled China on the Psychiatrist’s Couch he explained that “the One-Child Policy strikes at the heart of the Chinese family structure, which is founded on many children—a sign of prosperity…. The government cannot eradicate the Chinese cultural desire to be the father or mother of many children…. A new equilibrium has to be devised.” Congressman Smith described the devastation more bluntly. “Women are severely harmed emotionally, psychologically, and physically. Chinese women are violated by the state. The suicide rate for Chinese women—about 500 a day—far exceeds suicide rates anywhere on earth.”

Females of all ages have suffered disproportionately from the government restrictions. Mosher writes, “Within a few years of the introduction of the one-child policy, hundreds of thousands of baby girls were being drowned, smothered, or abandoned at birth each year…even in relatively wealthy areas like the Pearl River Delta, where female infanticide was unknown in earlier times.”

The increased availability of techniques for determining the sex of a fetus has led to widespread selective abortion. An official report notes that currently 119 boys are born for every 100 girls (in 1982 the ratio was 108 boys to 100 girls). It is expected that by 2020 between 25 and 30 million Chinese men will have no prospects of marrying.

This gender imbalance has already led to a host of social ills: higher rates of crime, homosexuality, and divorce, and a lucrative market in surrogate mothers (usually recruited by agencies from poor villages). The Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing admits that there is trafficking in North Korean and Vietnamese women, who are sold to single Chinese farmers. These “undocumented slaves” are often resold to other networks or else handed over to the Chinese police, who receive a bounty for sending them back across the border.