That is so obvious and is still 100% valid in close to any nation on this planet in different scale.

An excerpt from Jacque Fresco’s book “What Money can’t buy” …

Science should not be used to conquer nature, but rather should point out our interdependence and connectivity to nature, and explore how to utilize our knowledge to live in accordance with the natural order of things. When we as a nation spend nearly five hundred billion dollars annually on defense and only two billion on understanding our environment, one must question whether there is actually intelligent life on Earth.

I would like and will work on it, that this changes “at my scale” at least.