If I take my mortgage money and blow it all at the casino, that's probably fun too.
We've been taking out loans from the atmosphere and the oceans for a hundred years and spending like mad. In the end, nature will prove to be a more cruel lender than any human.
People do actually like nature. When technology advances far enough, humans will use it to restore nature again, not necessarily because we feel obligated to, but because it sells houses.
It is a nice thought, I guess, but it won't be Nature. It will be Nature: Restored. That is, something else.
This is not a given. It presupposes the continued existence of modern civilization. Who spends time researching carbon sequestration when their flooded neighbors from the next city over are trying to take your resources by force?
Also,the atmosphere is the ultimate tragedy of the commons problem, and we haven't fixed it in decades of trying.
The planet will return to a sustainable state. Sadly the loss of nearly all vertebrates and billions of dead is sustainable. Hell, so is Venus. Saying how great things are while dancing on top of the landmine, as this article is doing in a sense, seems foolhardy.