Who wiill be the Custodians of the Custodians?

We're the most intelligent species on the planet, we have self-awareness, and by fait accompli we have been duly appointed the "Custodians of Nature". I do not need to get into the well-established bundle of insanity that makes this responsibility so ironic. But in case you're reading this as a fresh visitor from another planet, I will briefly summarize the behavioral tendencies that makes us, "Nature's Jailers", a walking cabinet of conflict of interest cases; we the custodians engage in: destructive political and commercial competition for Nature's resources, extractive practices driven by corporate greed (which results in a myriad species going extinct each year), an unfair balance of ownership of the Earth's resources (a legacy of colonialism -- which forces impoverished peoples to farm marginal land turning it into desert), religious and male chauvinistic resistance to responsible birth control (which creates population densities that regional environments cannot support), and our shackled dependence on burning oil and coal for energy (which creates devastating drought through climate change). All of these factors make the human race the poorest example of what it is to be caretakers of anything so rare in the universe as a a planet with an actual biosphere. How is it that we evolved to be technologically capable of actually harming the whole planet's ecology, but did not evolve a concomitant awareness of and respect for our debt to Nature? But then again, it is not as if we treat our species any better than they way do the other creatures and features of this planet. If in all the time we have walked the earth we have never managed to learn to take care of each other except perhaps in general terms on a family level, and occasionally (under certain limited circumstances) on tribal and national levels, how could we be expected to act altruistically for Nature herself? Still, the fact that we actually have the capacity to look beyond the immediate concerns of survival and reproduction, that we can sense the beauty and profundity of the whole order of life and discover the chemical physical dynamics underlying it, it would stand to reason that a desire to protect, maintain and nurture our world and each other would follow. Perhaps that's where education would fit in. Too bad in America we're more concerned about our children being rote learners trained to see tests as the end-all of their schooling. But what if we allowed our children to appreciate all that there is to learn out there (not just what the politicians tell them to pay attention to), and develop the dynamic mental capacities to engage with those beacons of mystery (i.e., critical thinking tools)? Then the answer is solved as to how we can create a custodianship for the custodians of Nature (i.e., an ethical foundation that polices the ecological caretakers). The custodianship would be education itself. Those so educated would police themselves. An educated appreciation of the majesty and fragility of the web of life that binds us (and the massive lifelessness that surrounds us in the greater universe) would make our actions conform to a resultant ethics operative within the conscience itself. But if we keep our educational system running like a great bridge to nowhere, the "Bad Jailership" of the planet will be free to continue. These Bad Jailers know full well that there are not enough properly educated people with an adequate ecological perspective to oppose them politically. So they continue to merrily strip the planet down to its bones. These "Custodians" need Custodians.