We have a responsibility. We must save it if we are to save ourselves. But we care. And we cannot afford not to. Well, that is the standard answer.
Alienation is old news.
Our society must move forward to global concern for nature. You could say it is serious devastation that has led us to this point. I see now total paradigm shift, however, but an evolution of our way of thinking to a new way. It is not an about-face, and above all not a return to an earlier way of being. Machines are created by man and they are often defined by their instrumental value.