Here's an MSM article that covers the doomerish end of the spectrum in a reasonably even-handed way. Of course, I have to say that, given who they went to for some of their quotes...
Life after the oil crash
The apocalypse is coming - it's time to recycle your manure and get a socially responsible vasectomy. Peak-oil buffs are preparing for a future where oil is so scarce that people will go hungryDoomers come in many shades of gloom. Paul Chefurka, an Ottawa-based civil servant, identifies as a doomer but distances himself from the "buy-canned-food-and-bullets crowd."
"You can't prepare for everything," he says. "At this point any vision of the future is just as likely to be wrong as right."
The concept of peak oil attracted Mr. Chefurka's attention four years ago just as interest in the theory was flourishing online. The theory, which posits that oil production will inevitably hit a zenith and subsequently spiral into terminal decline, had been around for 50 years, but numerous endorsements from geologists and oil experts swelled its profile around 2002.
In recent years, he has moved from a suburban McMansion to an urban bungalow, downsized his car and curbed his air travel. He started a food garden on his small urban lot that supplies 20 per cent of his and his wife's fare during the warmer months. What they can't eat, they've started canning for the leaner winter months.
On his website,
http://www.paulchefurka.ca he encourages readers to eat lower on the food chain, retrofit their homes and "consider not having children." Mr. Chefurka himself has had a "socially responsible vasectomy."
"We've got too many people on Earth doing too much," he says. "Unless family is more important than anything else, you might want to consider not having one."
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