UN General Assembly
1962

139. Modern science and technology have shown that the land and water of our planet have the capacity to go on producing the supplies-needed by the world's population indefinitely. 140. We must avail ourselves of this capacity and coordinate its use for the benefit of all peoples, in order once again to disprove the Malthusian theory that the rate of growth of the population outstrips the production of essential goods and that, when the imbalance reaches a critical point, equilibrium is restored through the wholesale extermination of entire sections of the population by disasters, pestilence, poverty and war. 141. These questions must be given careful and preferential consideration by the United Nations, because they are at the root of the evils that endanger peace; and the co-operation of all other international, regional and national organizations which conduct or direct activities in the fields of development, financing, and technical and economic assistance must be obtained in order to seek adequate solutions to these questions and to apply them within the framework of a co-ordinated world-wide plan.