As someone with more than a passing interest in Societal Collapse, but without time to watch the video right now, how does Blow's talk stack up against say The Great Simplification series by Nate Hagens [1], Joseph Tainter [2] or any of the many authors contributing to this field as referenced in this Nodes of Persisting Complexity paper [3]?
[1] https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episodes