Increasing Human Demand and the Role of United Nations

From their very inception maps have been flexible. All geographers, political scientists and historians recognize this fact. Driven by need man has drawn imaginary lines on the earth and created states/nations. History tells us about the rise and decline of such states. Even before his swimming on the surface of the seas came to an end, man dived deep under water to touch and explore the ocean floor, so as to gift his nation with another repository of treasures. It was, as if, that space was a part of the unlimited area of a nation beyond any boundaries. In the last phase of history the large, powerful, ancient states became intensely preoccupied with extending their right over the ocean floor by pushing the lines of their map into the very depths of the sea, while the small, weak, new states remained mere spectators. At the turn of the last century many nations in a united effort sought help from the United Nations to resolve this problem. Consequently, in 1962 an Agreement was signed by the representatives of 160 nations, even though the United States of America and some other nations refrained from signing the same. The formal name of this Agreement is United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Present author has loudly proclaimed that the increase in population is not the only problem we are facing. If population had been the greatest problem then neighboring states with the same population would not have had such different standards of living. The main key to development and non-development is the supervision and evaluation of population. Therefore, the counting of population should not be a head-count, but should be based on human demand and its quantity. We are completely absorbed in a strange life-style. The mercury of our demands goes on rising everyday – uncompromising demand – the demand to sustain commercial enterprise. The clue to a solution to the problem regarding the occupation of the ocean floor by different nations can be found in the UNCLOS Agreement of the United Nations. . Just as UNCLOS protects the resources of the ocean floor, a similar Agreement called the United Nations Convention on the law of demand (UNCLOD) is necessary to stop the excessive and unscientific use of resources to meet man’s extraordinary demands. This Agreement will draw a boundary around every person’s demands. Every country’s size, total population, population-density, rate of expansion, water resources, forest area, soil content, landforms, etc, can easily be calculated in statistical terms. In order to make the attempt of UNCLOD to limit every man of every nation to a fixed quota of demands effective, a statistical assessment of resources, and an evaluation of other resources and an estimate of the inner strength of such resources must be made. At this Convention a long catalogue of nations consisting of several levels/ strata will be prepared. Every nation will find a place in one or another level/ stratum. That level/ stratum itself will determine how much demand per head of a nation’s population is legitimate.