What has it cost us to save the California Condor? This is a case where a hugely expensive, multi-decade preservation program had failed completely before a controversial captive-breeding program was begun. How many dollars were lost in resource and land use value during the preservation? How much was spent in breeding studies, behavior analyses, incubation, training, release monitoring, and then… what are the fines going to be for the homeowners who have the insensitivity to allow the condors to steal the nachos off the back deck? All that preservation with nearly total failure and the birds apparently enjoy the shelter of suburban housing developments. Would it have been cheaper and more successful to have a few houses funding a heterogeneous approach to increasing condor populations? Did we really have to preserve their habitat or would suburban condor overpopulation have driven young birds with better genetic diversity back into the wild? Is there a benefit to having semi-domesticated transitional, suburban condor population reservoirs? Would there be people on the margins of the wild areas prepared to make a buck assuring their success? Do we really know? Is the information, of how much time and effort that went into that restoration and reintroduction, valuable as an estimate of the risk associated with the loss of other species?Emphasis added.None of these countervailing questions would come into play with a risk-based pricing system. Jealous landowners would have already invested in a critical range junction at Gorman Pass (in Southern California) for its value as ideal condor habitat. They would demand too high a price for the land for Enron to buy, compared to other locations with steady winds. Under the current system (sorry), Enron had to find out the hard way after years of site exploration and negotiations. A lawsuit stated that their tax-subsidized wind generators threatened to chew more condors into little bits. Under InsCert, there would have been no lawsuit, no bad PR, no political hassle, and no wasted energy on the part of Enron.
The benefits of a good management system are found, not in how they solve problems, but in how effortlessly they are prevented.
How do you expect an elite enviralist, who is over educated in the wrong things and completely unskilled in the correct things and people skills to make a living if this concept of yours comes into effect:
The benefits of a good management system are found, not in how they solve problems, but in how effortlessly they are prevented.
There is zero future for meddling elite enviros if your system comes into effect. All of the meddling elite enviros would lose their elite paychecks. Do you want to be responsible for so many elite enviros becoming depressed and unemployed street people?