Alright, so say that the population is wiped out via vaccine apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, or whatever, and that whatever remnant survivors take these stones as gospel. Are they supposed to keep a tally of the population and then, once that population reaches five hundred million, are they they supposed to start killing off the overflow? Is that supposed to be a better interpretation? This is what you would ask of the survivors of a near genocide?

According these stones, we are significantly out balance with nature already. Billions would have to die to reach this ideal, and incase you aren't aware, there are some in power who have openly advocated for depopulation already. If these "ideals" are to be met, then what difference does it make for the people before or after the significant depopulation? At the point that the "survivors" find them, significant depopulation would have already occurred.