C. Lafkas: Current and potential demands of man for the common materials of this earth, facts underlining the need for new thinking and decision-making.
G.C. Perlin: The problems of preserving democracy in a society in which decisions require increasingly specialized knowledge, and the maintenance of the principle that citizens ought to be able to participate in making decisions that affect them.
R.H. Clark: The content and conclusions of the two reports are contrasted and criticized. The factors affecting world stability are considered as an introduction to the succeeding lectures on the subject.