The Oil Drum: Peak Oil, Persuasion, and the World Meme

Many themes pervade the day-to-day attention span of the world’s
citizenry right now: terrorism, fear of Islam/Islamofascism/religious
systems not your own, Asian growth, immigration, global warming/climate
change–so many are called “important.”

All of these ideas vary in importance, salience, and validity depending
on who you talk to; but all are definitely a part of the din of noise
we subject ourselves to every day.

It still remains my concern, however, that the pillars to the myriad
houses of problems I list above are those of world energy
depletion–namely oil and its peak.

This leads me to my main question, which I will address in this post:
how and when are human beings able to cut through all of that noise?
How can they be persuaded?

Much more after the jump to The Oil Drum.