It is true that any objective resource manager would cut the World Population down to just a couple of hundred million without batting an eye. We need only look at the logic applied to the management of Natural Wilderness Areas to know what would happen if the same evaluation models were ever applied to Humanity in general -- they would declare an open hunting season on Human in order to thin out the herd. It had been done before. It is widely suspected now that World War One was a coordinated event initiated by bureaucrats in key positions within all of the World Powers at the time, in order to butcher down the masses which were seen as becoming ever more unrulely and chaotic. It was thought that the recently invented machine guns, fast loading and long range artillery, and innovations in poison gases would return the European Populations to more comfortable numbers with little impact on the only people that mattered -- the Banking Classes. Well, War never works out as the Ruling Classes expect... as the American's are now relearning after the World thought they had learned it in Vietnam.
But the biggest problem that War creates is the instability of caused by destroying the institutions of law and order and the infrastructures and economies that maintained the populations. Iraq offers a relevent example of how instability can be a far worse problem then even the worst of tyrants -- one tyrant may be very bad, but a couple of thousand barbarians all contending to be the Next Tyrant are far far worse. But the problem of instability would no longer be a problem if it was resolved to simply eliminate complete populations. Survivors would be embittered and hostile, so don't have survivors.
History remembers the Mongolian Invasion of Persia in the 12th Century. After the Persian Knights had been soundly defeated on the field of battle, their emissories told the Mongolian Generals that the children of Persia would grow up to avenge this defeat. The Mongolians believed them, and so they initiated a nationwide massacre.
We can also read of how Rome dealt with Carthage. Cato would stand up in the Senate and end each speech, even speeches about augmenting the sewage department or hiring new dog catchers, with the words "Carthage must be destroyed". So, when the walls of Carthage were finally breached, those who were not disposed of through Slavery were completely annihilated, and the fields for hundreds of miles around were salted... it may well have been the beginning of what we now know as the Sahara Desert. We can argue that the Policy was inhumane, but as a political decision it was largely successful. It gave Rome an unrivaled and undisturbed control of the Mediterranean Region which would be undisturbed for close to seven hundred years.
So, any sensible Alien Power that would decide to manage the World Population would be wise to pick out entire regions and populations which could be entirely eradicated, while leaving other Populations entirely unharmed. The Unmolested Populations, not being antagonized, would not be embittered, and could be used to Colonize the newly made Empty Zones, but now with reasonable population levels.
Now, regarding the Two Moons. An actual Moon would be very difficult to come by. However, a sophisticated Space Power could unfurl a huge circular Banner made out of a very thin film that would appear to be a Moon. After that, a chain of nuclear explosions down through the centers of both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and through the India Ocean would be sufficient to flood out all of the Maritime Cities, destroying at the same time every single sea going cargo vessel. It would certainly destroy every advanced World Economic Power, throwing whoever survived into utter chaos and panic. There would be no Relief Efforts for a Disaster that large. It would quickly become the prevalent wisdom that every man would be better off fending for himself. Anybody with surplus food would not be likely to think of giving it away.
Regarding your time frame... yes, most End of Time prophecies are projecting 2012 as the year of climax. The Mayan Calendar then runs out. The Marian Apparitions have been speaking of End Times for the last several hundred years, but only recently have been leaving Seers behind with the promise that they would see the End. These seers are now in their 40's and 50's. Saint Malachi of the 11th Century said that a Pope Benedict would be the last Pope, and now we have a Pope Benedict.
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