Most important of all, perhaps, during rituals we have the experience, unique in our culture, of neither opposing nature or trying to be in communion with nature; but of finding ourselves within nature, and that is the key to sustainable culture.
If you’re spending zero time walking around in nature, it’s much less obvious that you should prioritize it than it is to someone spending even ten minutes a day touching the grass.
people need many points of contact with the natural world to be happy and AC loses a few of them
which might be OK but all the others have been lost too. In the dead of summer and winter people wear flip flops and travel in space bubble cars to space bubble buildings.