Indeed, the fact that many people can't get past the 'you're with us or you're against us' mentality when it comes to non-renewable renewables (I can't tell you how many times I've been accused of being a shill for the fossil fuel industry because of a comment that challenges the 'green/clean' energy narrative) keeps many eyes off the alternative approaches to confronting our predicament of overshoot--particularly a purposeful and somewhat controlled contraction of our industrial and energy-intensive complexities, that many refer to as degrowth.

Degrowth is coming whether we wish it or not and I believe it would be in people's best interest to recognise this and prepare for it, but most won't as they continue to cling to the complex narratives weaved about a techno-cornucopian future.

And while I often refer to 'collapse' of our complex societies, I tend to do this in the context of archaeologist Joseph Tainter's definition of it. As he argues, collapse manifests itself as: less stratification and social differentiation; less economic and occupational specialisation; less centralised control (i.e., less regulation by elites); less behavioural control and regimentation; less investment in the epiphenomena of complexity (e.g., monumental architecture); less flow of information between a central authority and its periphery; less trading (i.e., more localisation); less coordination of groups; a smaller territory.

Most of that doesn't sound too bad.