Ugo has a Hopium streak that appears when he starts talking about renewables, so I wouldn't completely discount him generating some kind of scenario where there would be a recovery after a Seneca style rapid collapse.
Also, unless you believe we are on a one way steady progression to extinction, a leveling out and then rebound is the only other possible outcome. That's what happened when the population of Homo Saps fell off a Seneca Cliff 75,00years ago and dwindled to just 10,000 meat packages. It's also true for smaller collapses, like Rome. The city itself dropped in population to just a few thousand after the western Roman Empire collapsed, but eventually rebounded through the middle ages.
However, on a scale of a human lifetime, if you have a Seneca collapse, you would never be able to get back to that level so fast. It takes many generations to recover.
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