It is so vital to understand that environmental crisis, which we are into now, is a crisis of consciousness...   " Social and moral progress seemed more elusive than material progress, so human progress was quietly redefined and limited to material progress" . Michael Huesemann's excellent lecture on the inherent value of technology to constantly attain more and more (consumerism, materialism) as 'good'. Disrupting the connectedness with non technology such as nature- "when we consider ourselves part of nature, we will not tolerate pollution"...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsUypIHZhc