#quantifiedDeath (conservation)
In a Frontiers of Ecology paper provocatively entitled “Counting the books while the library burns”, CEED researchers Professor David Lindenmayer and Dr Maxine Piggott of the Australian National University, and Assoc. Professor Brendan Wintle of the University of Melbourne warn that some conservation programs are standing by and watching species die out. They produce evidence that many wildlife programs around the world are monitoring species to the point of extinction – often without taking the necessary action to save them.
via Monitoring endangered species to death.
Use for ref to the idea of #quantifiedDeath, where we are a) so busy measuring that we forget to stay alive, and b) that we measure and calculate our predictions of extinction very accurately, and end up observing our own demise through a warped veil of scientific smugness.