 Absence of recognition of the current benefit of biodiversity’s maintenance of options has other implications. Maier’s (2018) arguments that biodiversity option value has no normative standing are based on an assessment of variety as a future, not current, benefit. An alternative argument, supporting normative standing, focuses on biodiversity-as-variety as a current benefit, because this variety is recognised as maintaining options for future generations. This current value links to normativity—we ought to act to conserve biodiversity and its maintenance of options because it is the right thing to do, given that we care about, and have some relational moral obligation to future generations (Faith 2018a). These discussions highlight the idea that both “current benefit” and “future benefit” are relevant to biodiversity option value. Biodiversity is a benefit currently because it offers unanticipated future benefits, and given the relational sense of obligation to future generations is a basis for normativity.