Not quite. John Thackera shows in his last book the compound exponential effect of the growing ammount of small initiatives. I've seen the number of intentional communities here in Europe rise spectacularly. 10years ago I could still easily count them, now it's impossible Something else is going on. A growing undercurrent.

"I believe we are currently in a struggle between two competing World Views to replace the past eras of dirty industrialisation and post-imperialism. One is Hyper Capitalism leading to high levels of concentration of capital-intensive resources: people in high-density cities, urban industrial vertical farming (no-soil), energy from billion euro nuclear reactors, the concentration of power led by corporate interests and higher thresholds of regulations to discourage competition. The other model is Dispersed with a much lower carbon footprint. Centred around network communities and commons led. "

https://gl-10190.medium.com/common-ground-a-dialogue-eccb883c235a