Disagree - ecologists are specifically categorized as wicked problems (as opposed to ‘tame’ problems like say chess) because they are complex and you never know where the fallout is going to be.

We know if the disasters because we see them go wrong more often than not.

Survivorship bias applies more to things like CEO success stories, startup success stories and sports personalities.

A tiny fraction make it big, and these get studied/reported on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem