Noah Ryan, thesis for research project

I am having a great deal of trouble deciding on a topic for my research paper. The best I have come up with is something along the lines of investigating the influence of Western understanding of sacred place/landscape on our understanding of the world and our attitude concerning the environment. Mostly I want to present the idea that our view of ourselves and humans as a species has done great damage to our way of life and to the community of life, and to fix this we would have to change our whole outlook on life. One problem with this is the broadness of the topic, but I suppose I could limit it to the United States or a particular part of the way we view ourselves. I am not sure I will be able to articulate exactly what I want to say in this essay, or that I will be able to tackle the issues that interest me. Probably I'll end up doing some specific place, Colorado for example, and a specific Native American tribes understanding of the landscape compared to the non-native peoples and the differences in how they treat the world around them.