A devastating neglect of nature and its requirements, matched to unprecedented wealth , are the “strongest” marks of modernity as the triumph of free-market magic. Here an irony surfaces: “Free riders” are scorned by capitalist industrial orders, yet these same orders are saddled with a free-rider problem they barely recognize. “Free riders” are those who consume more than their share of a public resource, or who shoulder less than their fair share of its costs. Because market logic treats nature as essentially worthless apart from human interest, human labor, human demand, and human use, citizens living the industrial-technological paradigm all freeload off the ecosphere. They do not pay the full costs of either its goods or its services.
–Rasmussen, Larry L. (2012-10-02). Earth-honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key (p. 174). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

But the obvious problem here is that these global elite do not consider the ecosystem as a finite resource.  For them,  it is INFINITE;  and therefore belongs to them,  the captors; the “victors” in this global economy.

This really is a great ECOtheology book.  I recommend it as a worthy textbook for seminaries to start (if they haven’t already),  an ecotheology curriculum as a way of raising our prophetic voice.  We are already at least 30 years behind on this,  since the global eco-scientists have been warning of this for at least that long.