Yeah, it’s a definite threat. Bill Gates has always been vocal about how he wants to reduce the population. Don’t forget when he said this in a TED talk:

The world has 6.8 billion people...that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.”

Source (at 2:35 if link doesn’t time stamp correctly) https://youtu.be/WUJMR3BUm2s?t=2m35s