I agree with your statements on focising on education and solutions but wonder how we can effectively dialouge with the critics when their underlying assumptions are fundamently different. The PO aware see a looming/current problem in contrast to the voices of commerce and industry which see just another opportunity for progress in the form of new technology or developement of new energy sources. How can one effectivley educate these groups when they are just as skeptical of PO as we are of the current system continuing without a hitch, even inspite of the mouting evidance that continues to bolster the case of peak oil. It seems to me that the faith in 'progress' exibited by the majority of our society is what realy inhibits a meaningful dialouge. In such a circumstance who can ever truely appear as neutral voice?