That's the title of an article in the New York Times about otherwise normal people taking very strange steps to prepare for life after peak-oil. I'll give you some examples. Preparations for a post-petroleum world include growing your own food and stockpiling against shortages or spending three hours on therapeutic telephone calls to help you deal with the prospect of this new world. (Nice to know there's a boom in doom for the counsellors.) Some of the fearful are even converting their investments to gold and silver. These folks who call themselves the 'doomers' are worried that the end of oil will mean food shortages, a collapse of the economy or even a breakdown of civil order.

Here’s what convinced me that it’s the right way to go.