I suppose in a world where people have limited time and have other priorities, we often glaze over the numbers and don’t think about what they really mean in terms of magnitude. I also think desensitization due to the mass media has something to do with it—we are shown statistics and huge numbers all them time for scenarios much worse (war deaths, crimes, disease deaths), so a number as large as 200,000 birds saved wouldn’t make anyone bat an eye—it just becomes another number in the book.
I suppose in a world where people have limited time and have other priorities, we often glaze over the numbers and don’t think about what they really mean in terms of magnitude. I also think desensitization due to the mass media has something to do with it—we are shown statistics and huge numbers all them time for scenarios much worse (war deaths, crimes, disease deaths), so a number as large as 200,000 birds saved wouldn’t make anyone bat an eye—it just becomes another number in the book.