Mother Jones Foggy Mental Breakdown.

I get "Nations do not want to slow their technological and industrial progress for mainly economic and strategic reasons" part but the rest of it don't make any sense. What's any of that got to do with what we have done to our planet's geophysical processes?
Huhn?
I get "Nations do not want to slow their technological and industrial progress for mainly economic and strategic reasons" part but the rest of it don't make any sense. What's any of that got to do with (understanding/facing) what we have done (are doing) to our planet's geophysical processes?
Huhn?