I think that we are all missing the "spiritual" element that may be required to address/handle (or persevere through) this crisis. While Im not religious, I recognize much of what is being said by him.
Organized religion spent thousands of years cultivating mankind's euphoric reaction to the universe's natural beauty and wonder as a tool employed in the service of civilization; science has spent a good deal of time berating these childish fantasies and invalidating all such feelings while further stretching the boundaries of civilization in its own way. In essence, a human culture has now evolved completely alienated from their natural feelings and perceptions of reality; we fill the void with techno-toys to keep us busy and lengthy hours of toil at our pointless careers (which simply contribute to environmental degradation). We have a 10 thousand year track record of either believing we own nature--being separate from it--or that exploiting it in the name of "progress" is an a priori good on the road towards utopia. But these are all false narratives we can only cling to in an isolated system divorced from the life and energy in the universe.
But where do we go from here? We have a near perfectly evolved system that distracts its hollowed slaves with "spiritual" replacements to reinforce its ever growing structure. How can we wake people up to what is around them and to what they are missing and to the truth of their lifestyles? How can people be open to ideas that their false narrative completely invalidates? And how can we do it immediately?
We probably cannot, but that is simply how things go
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