I have no time to further explore this now, but Chet Bowers rocks.

He shows how virtual worlds carry with them hidden biases that represent a bygone era of physical abundance, and thereby undermine the needed growing awareness for sustainability.

For more info, check his book: TOWARD A POST-INDUSTRIAL CONSCIOUSNESS: UNDERSTANDING THE LINGUISTIC BASIS OF ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE EDUCATIONAL REFORMS, available for free via his website.

Chet´s overall focus is reforming education towards the fostering of such post-industrial consciousness.

The following ToC gives you an indication of the fascinating content:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Western Philosophy, Language, and the Titanic Mind-Set that has Put Us on a
Collision Course With Environmental Limits

Chapter 3 The Linguistic Colonization of the Present by Past Thinkers Who Were Unaware of Environmental Issues

Chapter 4 How the Linguistic Complicity of George Lakoff Supports the Market Liberal’s Agenda for Enclosing the Cultural and Environmental Commons

Chapter 5 The Double Bind of Environmentalists Who Identify Themselves as Liberals

Chapter 6 Revitalizing the Cultural Commons in an Era of Political and Ecological Uncertainties

Chapter 7 Toward an Ecologically Sustainable Vocabulary