Sustainability as a metric of ethics?

Been wondering whether there are any ethics systems that measure the viablity of an act based on whether it leads to a sustainable society or not. Basically, you judge the fitness of an action by asking "what if everyone did the same thing" and if the result is an unstable society then the act is judged as unethical. This applies at the macro level (what if every country acted in the same way), too. Would this be where evolutionary pressures lead, because stable societies would be more likely to advance (less time spent warring internally or externally) then unstable societies (more time fighting for survival)?