The "bio-economy" and "bio-services" are coming. You'll start to hear these buzz-words more and more in following years, watch for the emphasis in federal science funding initiatives etc. When arguments based on economic impact are translated into laws and rules for how we do things, and we start to tie things like the paper mentions into the picture, then the logical outcome is more "reverence" for the natural world, wrapped in the veneer of capitalism. There is ample precedent, see protection of fishing grounds, biological control saving billions of $ and millions of lives [1], etc. etc.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenacoccus_manihoti)