w/ their "chinese wheelbarrow best wheelbarrow" and claims that covering 80% of the earth's land surface with coppice would be sustainable, I'm gonna say that low tech magazine, or at least some of their writers, have lost their way and are drifting away from being pro-mandatory-sustainability to pro-anything-not-West-is-Best

The latter is usually true but that doesn't mean EVERYTHING anti-capital is better.

For example, we cannot cover most of the earth in short-life forests.