Or, as Reverend Hamel puts it, western society is capable of viewing creation as a store of resources for economic use because it has lost its spiritual relationship with the land. Once that relationship is erased, society is suddenly capable of destroying nature, the source of its physical and spiritual sustenance, without regret or second thought. You are losing sacred places. All of the land, the Earth, is a holy place and it is a place to be treated with respect and awe. If you don't have a personal relationship to that, if it doesn't mean something to you, then you can objectify it.
People like to get scared of the word spirituality.
It conjures up some kind of fear - that people who are spiritual aren't right in the head or whatever. They make fun of it, and that's something you do when faced with something you don't know about, and you're afraid to know about. You make fun of it and put it down. And yet it's such a simple thing. It never used to be this way.