He does a pretty good job, traveling to the Yellow Springs conference and hanging out with the New York Peak Oil group. He obviously read a lot of the books that have come out in the last couple of years on the subject.
He also outlines the American history of end-of-the-world movements, and talks about how the p-o movement resembles some of these. He discusses the idea of lifeboats and of ecotopian survival communities. He "gets it" on how hard this would be on any kind of scale.
But he does not ridicule the movement, because he thinks they might be right this time. The facts do seem difficult to ignore.
Anyway, this article is well written and should be on the newstands within the next few days. Harper's, of course, does not have a Web presence, so I guess you'll have to buy it, or go to the library.
