The world seems to function BY THE NUMBERS, with each and every day a mere manifestation of cost-benefit analyses on individual, corporate, and political levels. The inherent problem of this whole situation is that we [society] are not asking the right questions: What mode of action provides the best odds of species recovery, ensures habitat restoration, provides environmental sustainability, or simply what is the morally right thing to do?
In the context of environmental law, cost-benefit analysis tries to breakdown both the positives and negatives of regulatory alternatives to a dollar figure. Thus, there becomes a need to quantify the monetary value of human life, endangered species, aesthetics, and habitats. Generally speaking, the positives and negatives are calculated by what people are willing to pay to either prevent or retrieve an outcome.
Instead of looking at the world “by the numbers”, I propose we indeed view the world BIO the NUMBERS and see exactly what we have accomplished to date by yielding common sense to common cents.
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