“What I won’t tolerate is disparagement of the professional class in order to elevate craft skills.”
That, in a nutshell, is the crux of why we two will never agree on principle no matter how interesting some of your work is. That you are a craftsman of some skill is obvious. But knowledge and expertise is useless without wisdom. True wisdom begins with the fear of The Almighty. In all your learned thesis about the necessity of environmental engineering; you never once give credit, acknowledgement or praise to The Architect of it all. Without that all your strivings are just vapor.
And with that I will respectfully disagree with you on the foundation of your view and move on.
You didn't look around the site much. I'd suggest you take a gander at this before making that judgment and then remember Matthew 10:16. As yourself why it was me who found that teaching and not the religious scholars of the world.
You see, I have to be careful to keep the technical and the spiritual at sufficient distance as to get those who would blow off what I do have to say on the topic before they get the sense that I do know whereof I speak. It's part of being effective in the place I live so that the light shines before men, at which point I can begin to reveal much that has been lost in the Word for over 3,000 years. I've been blessed with more revelation of more ecological content from the Torah than perhaps anyone alive, particularly insofar as the pastoral theme infusing the Torah as is reflected in the Gospels. As a clue for you, try explaining why the first humans to be told of the Messiah's birth were shepherds.
The Lord loves ALL of His Creation, which is what we were to bring to fullness in His true First Commandment: Genesis 1:28.