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The solution was as clear as it was terrible. Six billion people on my homeworld of Blood had to go. I'd never be able to deport them with spacecraft - I didn't have any, and it would take years to research the tech for colony modules large enough to transport that number of people, and I wasn't even sure if I could 'colonise' planets on which I already had colonies. Quite aside from which, these too would be cramped by then. No, there was a simple, cheap and very, very quick solution to this problem, and I took it immediately. I razed my farms. In one week, six billion people starved to death, and my approval rate among the survivors - who could now breathe - went from 49 percent, to 99. I could see why dictators did it.
we... we don't have them around here, do we?