In the first comment here, Will wrote:

We have to recreate visions of the future that will attract people, not simply repel them with dire warnings. This is a major theme with the Transition Town movement, which has created a primer (.pdf) to help people and communities get started. I believe this ray of hope helps get people past denial

I have to strongly question this notion that the TT movement gets people out of denial. Arguably it is just a false dawn. It gets beyond denial of a problem, sure. But not beyond denial of how extremely daunting any options are, denial that there can be no nice solutions, denial of the likelihood of negative social collapse rather than some fantasy community unification in the face of hardship.

I am intending to put together the reasoning for a more realistic analysis and synthesis on a new website www.energyark.org, though it's not yet ready to run (and I work at carboniferous era pace).