check the writings from Rocky Mountain Institute / Amory Lovins for less scary, more quantitative view on energy and the economy.
"Politicians cannot possibly admit that today’s world economy is headed for collapse, in a way similar to that of prior civilizations."
If the peak oil discussion do not divorce from Apocalypse fantasizing, it will never popularize. (What is not a big issue, the public isn't a very relevant party on solving that one problem anyway, and Global Warming already takes care of getting the public's sympathy.)
That being said, gloval energy markets are screwed up right now, Russia is doing everything they can make it worse. And it is among the asiest way to generate clicks and traffic, after all we are still somewhat in the summer whole of news cycles.
There are two ways out of peak oil:
The good outcome is we get alternatives (I've heard someone saying "the stone age didn't end for lack of stones", that is apt regardless of the original context of the quotation). PV etc. may be that alternative, I think they will be that alternative, but nothing is ever guaranteed until it is done.
The bad outcomes are like the trees no longer on Easter Island or the phosphate mines of Nauru.
One of those is constructive, and will get people to try to help you. The other one is destructive, and the best reaction people can have for it is to ostracize the message (and the messenger if he only has this to say).
And about the outcome, well, the destructive one is lying, because the outcome is not certain.
I would get away from the social media statements and more into research papers on this complex topic; even investor literature picked well will speak openly about pros and cons, with quantitative evidence to support it.