I'm afraid we should all be worshipping technological progress and capitalism, because if big business doesn't drive technological advances that somehow change the game and cut down on all these environmental problems (such as by replacing animal meat with grown substitutes that taste the same, or by engineering insects that eat plastic waste), I doubt anything will save us. Certainly, we won't save ourselves by becoming wiser. Only an ironic redirection of consumerism can save us, I suspect. Either way, I'm not so optimistic.