Freedom is the power to enter into voluntary agreements with other people who have precisely the same freedom, to achieve objectives of mutual benefit, as determined only by the parties to the agreement. Freedom is the power to make the rules which govern those agreements. Freedom is the power to create and control a system of general governance designed to serve its creators. Freedom is the power to cheat, lie, and steal - and learn the consequences of those actions. Freedom is the power to experiment, to invent, to help others - and learn the consequences of those actions.
Freedom is the ultimate objective of human kind.
A system of global democracy, administered by the United Nations, would turn the world away from its primary quest - individual freedom. Poverty cannot be eliminated by taking wealth from some and giving it to others. The inevitable consequence of such action is the expansion of poverty, by taking not only wealth, but the incentive to produce wealth as well. It can be truly protected only by those who use it, and depend upon it to meet their daily needs. Government ownership or control of the environment is the most certain way to insure its degradation through stagnation, mismanagement and neglect.