Wilderness and Experience as Medicine for Ecological Overwhelm/Abstract Thinking

I know that many people turn from knowing more or looking into the "ecological crisis" because it feels overwhelming to them, an abstract wall of doomsday numbers and nothing/little they can do. I hadn't made the connection with the abstract thinking involved... Perhaps our abstract thinking is sourced in our connection with our bodies, and if we are disconnected from our bodies, we are unable to fully succeed in abstract thinking, or we have become so deracinated from embodiment and corporeal strength that we are "developmentally arrested" before embodiment and abstraction?

It does make sense to me that for many, a personal connection, with discrete processes, lifecycles, hands-on, this round fruit above this particular soil, the way the light comes from the clouds, how the nut casing eases off and roasting then ... becomes our food. Or this particular kind of jigsaw puzzle bark, this avian visitor.... This is spirit and body medicine for the doomsday cloud that hovers over the Western conception of our current occupation (I mean that literally) of Earth. [Humans as an occupying army, shoulder to shoulder, hill to hill, jammed in, tents and tents, our air conditioners and dishwashers are our weapons, the earth is filled with us as an invading army....sorry, rather bleak, I digress...]