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==Popular and fringe theories==
 
==Popular and fringe theories==
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[[James Howard Kunstler]]'s 2005 book ''The Long Emergency'' is a popular book claiming that civilization is doomed during the next couple of decades due to peak oil.  Similar doomsday scenarios are promoted by [[Richard Heinberg]] in a series of books with names like ''The Party's Over'', ''Powerdown'', ''Peak Everything'', and ''Blackout''.
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[[James Howard Kunstler]]'s 2005 book ''The Long Emergency'' is a popular book claiming that civilization is doomed during the next couple of decades due to peak oil.  Similar doomsday scenarios are promoted by [[Richard Heinberg]] in a series of books with names like ''The Party's Over'', ''Powerdown'', ''Peak Everything'', and ''Blackout''.  On the [[Internet]], a [[blog]] called "The Oil Drum" and the website "Dieoff.org" are the most prominent popularizers of "peak oil" doomsday scenarios, including the notion that mass starvation will occur in the next few decades.
    
==Rejection of theory==
 
==Rejection of theory==
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