UN General Assembly
1952

20. What progress have we made towards the achievement of that objective? Poverty, disease and ignorance are the problems that still continue to distress and preoccupy the vast bulk of mankind. In recent times the progress of science and technology has multiplied many times man’s control over and direction of the forces of nature and his capacity to process raw materials and primary products. But this augmentation of man’s powers and capacity, instead of being devoted wholly to the alleviation of distress and the promotion of prosperity, is being used largely to. devise the means of man’s destruction.