Call your local representatives and ask them to send someone to the ASPO conference. People never talk your word for something that they don't want to hear. They have to go through the process themselves.

They don't know how to create a need.

Environmentalists seem exclusively focussed on climate change's impact on other species [ie saving the polar bear] or impact on foreigners [Pacific climate refugees] or impact on future people [by 2050 or 2100]. Which is too bad for them. They could have rallied a LOT more Americans to their cause by mentioning peak oil too: "oh by the way, since your food is no longer going to come in a wrapped package from out of state and there's not enough local food to go around...got a fishing rod? Oh that's right the remaining fish [outside the dead zones] have cancer.... Got orchards? Oh that's right they've been sold it off to developers....Got some good soil under your lawn? Oh that's right it was replaced with clay and chemicals.... Got back up water supply? Oh that's right it has all been going down the sewers.
...Well, don't you think we should make some changes around here so you won't starve whenever the trucks stop pulling up to the Safeway?"

Crying Wolf - Wrong analogy.

If you remember the story, the child LIED to get attention.

Peak Oil, Climate Disruption, Species Annihilation, Acid Rain and Oceans, Ozone depletion, Pollution and Poison are not lies. Some of these topics have long lead times that present focused individuals have denied these problems and their consequences. As a rhetorical tactic they respond by citing the story of the "Boy who cried wolf". The truth is that the wolf really was there, but it was off on another hill and each time the boy cried, the wolf was closer.

Now the wolf is about to eat the sheep and the child.