It's not oil or other resource conflicts that are poison per-se. It's a system of conflict resolution that eventually and too often turns to armed conflict as "diplomacy by other means."

It's also a "human nature" that is prone to having one group of us kill another as a means of conflict resolution. Unfortunately, that is apparently a part of the natural behavior repertoire of Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes.

I assure you that governments will continue to do evil things and will find the money to do so, but over time governments will become less evil.