It looks like Richard was asked to do it by the Jacobin and this place. Progressive International.
Water wars, oil wars, even lithium wars — as the climate crisis intensifies and the global population swells, we are often told that our future will be marked by a frightening scramble for natural resources.
QuoteIncreased competition over scarce resources is likely to contribute to internal tensions within countries, as well as external tensions between countries,warned the Pentagon in 2021.
In the video:
Explicit British policy to inflate profits and divert resources out of British India and into the global war effort (1943). John Maynard Keynes himself, then a colonial government adviser on wartime financial policy for India urged this profit incentive to. "Reduce the consumption of the poor through a forced transfer of purchasing power".