It's Yin/Yang Jack. A "doom porn obsession" is the perfect reaction to the reality of happy-talk-news main stream media.

There is no one magic quick fix solution.  Energize America's twenty point approach is excellent. All our activity may or may not be enough to avoid catastrophe. If people want to know about energy, they can find out and maybe make their own estimations (including doom).

I would be perfectly happy if we manage to muddle our way through this challenge. I keep investing.

Yes, I agree. Although I would have used the word "counterpart" rather than reaction. I don't know which came first, only that they are symetric extremes, neither one better or worse than the other. Yin/Yang is the right analogy.