Its roots go back to well before that.
We can create oil out of bio mass, and the statement by scientists “that within 20 years only third world countries” will buy oil created the need for a world war to set up a one world government.
Do that and we'll wreck the soil upon which the world food supply depends. We can't grow it all by hydroponics.
With the rest of your post I am in agreement.
Not burning forests, hydrocarbon trash. Convert trash to Syngas, catalyze into oil products. Produce 50% oil by mass. Nazi Germany fueled their war machine with this during the war when we cut off their oil supplies.