material reservoirs
… er, nope. Sorry. You can't blame Liberalism for the exploitation of nature. See how Paleolithic indigenous North Americans abused nature for millennia at a "buffalo jump" for one tiny tidbit of evidence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump
And ponder how meat-filled megafauna coincidentally died off when humans arrived in the vicinity.
By focusing on this, you're missing the real picture.
