If biologists are unhappy with the public choices indicated by these analyses, they have to educate the public better. Unfortunately, we simply can't afford the luxury of avoiding these choices. Since public funding for species recovery programs will never be adequate to protect all the species we would like to protect, a more explicit triage policy is needed. Preventing problems is often far cheaper than correcting them later. This merely shifts the costs of species protection from the public to individual landowners.
Courts currently define a taking as a loss of most or all of a property's economic value.
An alternative policy approach, voluntary sale to a public or non-profit agency of conservation easements on critical habitats, provides landowners a direct economic incentive to protect the rare species on their lands. We are approaching the limit of the number of people the Earth can support strongly mildly mildly strongly disagree disagree agree agree 2. The balance of nature is very delicate and easily upset. Humans have the right to modify the natural environment to suit their needs. Mankind was created to rule over the rest of nature.