UN General Assembly
1973

57. But progress on the traditional agenda is not enough. The more we succeed in solving political problems, the more other and perhaps deeper challenges emerge. As the world grows more stable we must confront the question of the ends of detente. As the threat of war recedes, the problem of the quality of life takes on more urgent significance. 58. We are, in fact, members of a community drawn by modern science, technology and new forms of communication into a proximity for which we are still politically unprepared. Technology daily outstrips the ability of our institutions to cope with its fruits. Our political imagination must catch up with our scientific vision. This is at the same time the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity of this Organization. 59. The pollution of the skies, the seas and the land is a global problem. 60. The increased consumption of cereals has reduced world food reserves to dangerously low levels. 61. The demand for energy is outrunning supply, and the need for technological innovation is urgent.