TY - JOUR AU - Pruit, John C. PY - 2012/08/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Peak Oil and the Everyday Complexity of Human Progress Narratives JF - Narrative Works JA - NW VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NW/article/view/20172 SP - AB - The “big” story of human progress has polarizing tendencies featuring the binary options of progress or decline. I consider human progress narratives in the context of everyday life. Analysis of the “little” stories from two narrative environments focusing on peak oil offers a more complex picture of the meaning and contours of the narrative. I consider the impact of differential blog site commitments to peak oil perspectives and identify five narrative types culled from two narrative dimensions. I argue that the lived experience complicates human progress narratives, which is no longer an either/or proposition ER -