Great book on this topic—as true today as the day it was written:
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fourth-Reich-Societies-Threaten/dp/0061245593
From my profile:
“If you wonder why so many politicians, corporate executives, church and non-profit leaders, education leaders, media and entertainment leaders, union leaders, public policy foundations have crazier and crazier plans to destroy the country and the world and ruin your life, look no further than the Marrs hypothesis.”
From what I can tell these powerful people are doing whatever they can to save the earth’s resources for themselves so they can keep their jets and yachts and giant houses and they just need to keep a few of us around to work for them.