Yes. I've read some of Ted's publications and even admired a simpler way example video or two. Meanwhile complexity shakily collapses. Now Europe ( West Asia ) is now entering phases of self-destruct, violent depopulation modes, with help from the USA and still fossil fuel powered Russia. Needs more space around the poles. No doubts can be seriously raised about the eventual destination and ongoing rapid demise of Techno Industrial Civilisation. Still human populations decline even more, as have to make room for lots and lots more hungry desperate refugees from tropics and middle latitudes of Europe Africa, America and Australia as global heating cooks dead the South. ( Middle Earth )