Time's Up: It's Now or Never for the Implementation of Ecoethics to Avoid Catastrophe

Preface
All credit to Paul R. Ehrlich, ecologist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, and still active in the Center for Conservation Biology.  Kudos, too, to the Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics (ESEP) section of IR, Inter-Research (Science Publisher), and its Open Access approach regarding crucial, scientific information.
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My first job as an ecologist was as one of the main researchers and authors of the "Water Pollution Control and Abatement Plan for Drainage Basin 15, State of Washington".  That was in 1973.  Over subsequent years and various positions in teaching, consulting, & a period of almost seven years with the Sacramento County Environmental Management Dept, I came to the following conclusions.
1.  Despite some progress, Humanity was heading for more and more ecological disasters.
2.  Some of the reasons why included materialism, unlimited consumption, unlimited growth, neoliberal policies, and politics.
3.  The main reason, though, was/is a lack of ethics... specifically, ecoethics.
[Dr. Ehrlich coined that term, I believe, in 2009.]

Our environmental/ecological problem on Earth is not only material in nature, it's metaphysical, spiritual.  Spiritual not in the sense of organized religion, but rather in the sense of ecoethics, life purpose, relationships to nonhuman life, and values which benefit/respect all biotic & abiotic parts of this amazing planet.  It's a question of where and how to direct our energy during our short time in this physical, cosmic dimension.

When first thinking about this particular blog post, I decided to do a limited "literature search" on the subject.  Perhaps someone else already has covered the subject... better than I ever could.  And that's the case.  In the essay at the link below, Professor Ehrlich brilliantly connects all the dots.  [It's on an Open Access venue.]  It's well worth your time.
https://www.int-res.com/articles/esep2014/14/e014p011.pdf
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Not only my opinion.  Be Well