I'd love to read that, and it will make a good sister article to this one.
Technology is what'll save the day, I think, as people don't really take to injunctions of the "no, bad human!" sort. They'll just keep doing what they're doing till they self-annihilate (like the movie Annihilation, I guess, if I interpret its meaning correctly).
As much as it depresses me, I have trouble arguing with you- we're not a particularly intelligent species when it comes to looking past today. Correcting our environmentally destructive basic behaviors is clearly the best strategy, but we're making terrible progress at it.