This is ecological damage that is more serious than climate change, though it is connected.  I would say it is more a matter of survival than ethics.  We won't survive long if we destroy all other multicellular life.  (We are not likely to destroy bacteria, which are everywhere and can survive conditions no other earthly life can endure.)  I read before about the severe decline in insects, and thought it would at least make the news -- it never did.  Not only did the mass media ignore it, but so did the various left and right newsletters I see.  Only science news and this one leftist site covered this story.  I find this unbelievable, but it shows how little people care about their fate.  Regardless of their politics.

The story here (and in the science news) also failed to state the obvious ethical issue -- we humans can't or won't control our own numbers.  There are just too many humans doing too much damage for the natural world to sustain itself.  It is not.  It is slowly collapsing under constant human assault.  The fact the assault is usually unintentional and even oblivious does not help any -- it may be an excuse, but the ecology is still damaged.  And we know well the assault is sometimes intentional, driven by greed or arrogance or just anti-social hate.

Peace,

*L*