The thesis isn't hard to understand, but where's the evidence?
There is an interesting conversation to be had around the psychology of climate change, specifically in the West, where our lifestyles make us unavoidably and inextricably complicit in the process and our governments have been so deeply culpable. So the feelings of helplessness, fear and despair are also wrapped in guilt around our own roles - but I would argue that doesn't translate into a desire for catastrophe, except perhaps in a particularly debased and cynical cohort, and even then there is (as has already been discussed here) a confusion with the morbid desire for spectacle.
But then there's the rest of the world, the majority. The indigenous peoples who managed to live in relative harmony with nature for millenia, various cultures and peoples who aren't necessarily driven by such a rapacious desire to dominate and exploit. We cant discuss group consciousness and simply ignore most of humanity.