I like your piece. The biggest takeaway is perception.

Politicians, Corporations, Upper & Middle Class Consumers, Consumerist-Capitalism, and the Gestalt of our Current Outlook Worldwide have shaped perception; such that - as you have written: "Because there’s always some future point that hasn’t happened yet, so not to worry." and the conservative predictions of the scientific researchers.

How to change perception is the key to the floodgates of rapid change. Though I suspect its already too late. And I agree that a small portion of humanity will survive - perhaps a million or two people and live as you have described. Since there are indigenous hunter-gatherers now they will be here in the future along with agrarian life.

Even when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s I sensed that civilization was moving too fast, eating up the ecology of natural environments. I grew up in a rural enclave on the edge of suburbia (in Connecticut). My playgrounds were thousands of acres of woods and watersheds, orchards, farmlands, and a diary. My first job was in a greenhouse growing tomatoes.

The orchards remain - farms and woods gone to housing developments (or as I like to call them backwardments).