I would sure hope so, but so far I haven't seen anything convincing. The industrial machinery keeps marching on.
At this point I'm predicting that the transition to renewables will fail due to the enormous costs involved (aside from transportation there are also things like converting metal industries to electric), combined with increased EROEI of fossil fuels eventually making extraction too expensive to maintain expected outputs.
It's still somewhat far into the future but it's seems to be happening, which is a comfort from the perspective of Ted's insights, but on the other hand it's not going to be any less violent, even though it would happen as an unintended side effect rather than through conscious effort.
People will once again need to become skillful in multiple areas, compared to the current specialization economy where every person is pretty much useless unless part of the "machinery".
At this point I'm predicting that the transition to renewables will fail due to the enormous costs involved (aside from transportation there are also things like converting metal industries to electric), combined with increased EROEI of fossil fuels eventually making extraction too expensive to maintain expected outputs.
It's still somewhat far into the future but it's seems to be happening, which is a comfort from the perspective of Ted's insights, but on the other hand it's not going to be any less violent, even though it would happen as an unintended side effect rather than through conscious effort.
People will once again need to become skillful in multiple areas, compared to the current specialization economy where every person is pretty much useless unless part of the "machinery".