Today's extremely spicy take is that endangered species protection is a very expensive national vanity project
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But the fact is that when it comes to biology, we're stumbling around in the dark and really don't know what might be useful in ten, let alone a hundred years. We shouldn't melt down nature's junkyard for scrap lest we lose interesting inventions.
Approximately zero percent of this very expensive-looking set of recommendations seems to have anything to do with evaluating the species re: usefulness. Perhaps we shouldn't melt down "nature's junkyard," but perhaps we should also inquire about the annual rent.
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Yeah, agreed. In broad senses I think ecological research is a lot less dumb than many other things we spend $ on, but there does need to be a sense of perspective.
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