1. How immediate do you think the fossil fuel crisis may be? How much time do you think we have for ourtransition to new energy sources?

2. Should our approach to energy be to use up all our fossil fuels, despite their pollution, and then addresstransition to the renewables, or should we move to the renewables as soon as we can?

This debate centers around the unknown time we have left to rely on fossil fuels and how to approach preparation for the transition. Although we do not know if we have reached the midpoint of their extraction, we know that they are nonrenewables and that our present economic model depends on them. The debate centers around how to approach this issue. Meanwhile, reliance on fossil fuels at the global level is increasing.