Steering spaceship earth: Report on the Fifth International Planning Conference

The conference report, by Bob Donaldson of the host Cleveland chapter, notes that the delegates came from 19 different countries, with less than half from the United States. A delegate could have heard as many as 22 individual speakers in regular sessions, along with many exposures to other delegates in informal sessions. With this diversity it is difficult to find consensus, but three issues of increasing concern to planners came up during many of the sessions: