If a species is doomed to extinction. How much is too much to spend saving it?

The climate has changed habitat shift tempurate increased. Land use different. If it cant be helped and thats the trend. How many resources should be wasted saving a species that simply wont survive.

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ViciDraco · 41-45, M

On one hand, it does seem foolish to fight the inevitable. However, if we make species extinction an expensive thing for our economies to go through, we might start to be more careful in our future environmental decision making.

If the creature is going extinct because of human action, I say let the money burn and tax the wealthy and the businesses contributing to the damage. We might not be able to save this creature, but we can make sure it's extinction is worked into the economic costs of business and not some costless externality.

jehova · 31-35, M

@ViciDraco i can support efforts to minimize further damage, habitats protections water conservation attempts to cull urban sprawl and human expansion. . My observation though is lets say polar bears, which will go extinct no matter what we do. And now deextinction of species. Why bring back obsolete species? Where is the line?