Can someone explain what this sentence mean please? Then word ‘little justification’ made me not understand it.
There is little justification for society to make extraordinary efforts— especially at a great cost in money and jobs- to save endangered animal or plant species.
There is not very much justification. I don't understand it, either. If there is little justification, there is some, so what is it?
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There is not very much justification. I don't understand it, either. If there is little justification, there is some, so what is it?
"little justification" = not very much justification = no (or very few) reasons
Governments and citizens have very few sensible reasons to spend a lot of money and lose job opportunities to save a species from extinction.
Saving a species from extinction is not worth spending a lot of money or sacrificing a lot of jobs..