Isn't Reddit owed by Conde Nast?

Doesn't Conde Nast also own...

Wired
Vogue
GQ
Glamour
Bon Appétit
New Yorker

With the possibly exception of the New Yorker... each of these publications has more advertising than content. And one might argue that the content is tailored to drive the advertising.

Why would this corporation want to promote TEOTWAWKI?

a)to help discuss and therefore prevent the nastier scenarios of TEOTWAWKI
b)to mitigate and adapt so as to keep as much TWAWKI as possible.
c)they wouldn't

Wired did a Cover story on oil a year or so ago.

If my memory is working this morning, it was very much in the "technology will save us, so keep motoring" camp.

Here is their take on oil sand:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/oil.html

There was a very strange relationship between wired.com and wired magazine for a while, but I believe the magazine now controls both outlets.

When I did a google of "oil" on wired.com I got this very funny news story.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/06/yes_men_strike_.html