Your Metacrisis and Ecocivilization seems to fit in with this body of work:
All of this is “realist” in some sense or another of that word. 2R skews in an idealistic direction - both in preferring optimistic scenarios and in imagining thought and culture can fundamentally transform society. At my core, I agree with that also (otherwise I would be off somewhere else), but I also fully understand that matter-energy is stubborn stuff and we can’t just wish our way to global harmony.