“The Venus Project is an attempt to bring world peace and all the nations together. If you don’t want war, killing, [?] crime you have to redesign the way society works, you have to declare all the Earth’s resources as a common heritage of all the world’s people […]
We don’t go to another country to bring democracy, we go there for their resources. Oil, metal, cheap labor. We don’t go to bring democracy. We took this land […] we stole it […then] we put up a sign: ‘Thou Shall Not Steal’.”
This interview is from February 2010. Scandalously no-one has told me about it a long time ago.
Apparently, Mr. Fresco share the notion that access to natural resources is the need behind many conflicts. He also is a bit of a dreamer and extremely critical of western democracy.