As the Cardinale paper discusses, biodiversity has now become one of the hottest topics in the scientific field. Recent decades of research and focus on the topic has provided substantial information as to how healthy diversity within an ecosystem ultimately benefits the overall environment’s functioning, the residents within it, and even ecosystems that lie adjacent or in close proximity. However, since the 1980s, biodiversity across countless ecosystems worldwide have begun to seriously decline. Species are now being lost at rate nearly 10,000 times faster than they can be replaced, and the services that these species provide along with them. Biodiversity offers an under-appreciated amount of benefits to not only the ecosystems we treasure, but to anthropocentric interests as well. In fact, the field of biodiversity is so broad and far reaching that it encompasses benefactors across social, biological, and economic fields. As Cardinale explains, rich biodiversity, of course, allows any type of ecosystem to continually improve its systematic functioning to the point of desired equilibrium. Additionally, high species richness allows for other ecological services such as improved soil formation, nutrient recycling, water purification, and climate stability, among others. Socially, biodiversity offers opportunities in tourism, research and cultural assessment. Lastly, biodiversity also offers a great deal of biological resources such as genetic diversity, medical resources, and livestock/agricultural food resources. Yet with all these benefits present, there is danger in placing such high value on biodiversity. While we need stable/healthy species richness across the globe to ensure the sustainability of all the benefits listed above, placing economic value on a scientific resource or field, as discussed by Acheson et al 2006, can have severe consequences. As Cardinale discusses at the end of his paper, putting monetary value on biodiversity may be the key to its protection, but from what Acheson claims, putting the future of specie diversity in the hands of greedy governments and the private sector alike could prove to be catastrophic. Governments and private land owners have both been known to overexploit and disregard environmental resources for economic gain, as well as ineffectively manage them, leading to complete resource collapse. So in this case, what is to say that the same will not happen to the biodiversity sector? Sure, we have to do something to protect the future of the species on Earth, but we must be careful throughout the process and not rush into a total management failure such as the ones discussed by Acheson.