The problem is that environmental degradation is an effect of human behavior. Addressing it directly is just putting a bandaid over a tumor.

The causes of our behavior are the belief systems guiding our actions.

For example, as mobile organisms, with a narrative based culture, our behavior is largely a function of extracting signal from the noise, yet it’s that “noise” being discarded, that is the basis and context of the signal. The network in which the node of signal exists.

Time is not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, as our sequence of perception presumes, as it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. So there is no “dimension” of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it. Causality and conservation of energy. Yet try making that point to a theoretical physicist will have you banned from the discussion.

Good and bad are not some cosmic dual between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of life. Unfortunately when they are treated as the ideal, rather than the essence of morality, any conflict quickly devolves into a race to the bottom between us, versus them and any effort to hold the sides to the higher, evolved structures of respect, responsibility, trust, humility, etc, is treated as weakness in the resulting polarization.

Here is my own limited effort to go further into the various jury rigged presumptions holding society together;

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0