If conceived as too static an idea, it will sound boring, repressed, held in, limiting. If we hear it as warm, inviting, changing, moving, opening up to new possibilities, then it will seem far more attractive. No one likes being told what to do, or especially how to live. The purpose of readings like these is to gather evidence on why we might want to live differently, from the inside out, so as to fall sway to the world rather than beat it down. Not everyone will be convinced, and nor should everyone be convinced, by the same evidence.
Belief suggests holding to an opinion impervious to the taunts of evidence or explanation.
Every culture seems built upon it, even if God is not always in the picture. People need to believe things which they cannot have experienced, to make meaning possible. These could be rules or visions, stories or statistics. We need them to know what to do next. Traditional religions can have much to say to the ecological seeker.