1/ In a very real way, the shift from a pagan earth-based spirituality to the patriarchal Christian notion of man’s right to dominate nature was a causal factor contributing to what would one day become our environmental crisis.

No. This is completely false. If you truly understood Christianity you would know being a good steward of all of God’s resources and gifts is very much a part of respecting creation. Christianity is not patriarchal, the culture it came through was.