Tonti Riyad’s Reviews > Venomous Lumpsucker > Status Update

I’m so enjoying all the details and thoughtfulness that’s gone into the world building that’s so eerily familiar. Like the extinction credit hack with COX region manipulation to feign new species in assessments (and then using the money for conservation as a way of having the free market work in your favor). Genius!

The pain of having to translate something almost sacred into a language that was never built to hold it. Like taking a living, breathing species, with all its quiet complexity and the impossible evolutionary history, its very right to just exist, and compress it into numbers on a balance sheet, hoping that will make someone care.

“The biodiversity enthusiasts were trying to talk to capitalists in the language of capitalism, but they knew as well as the capitalists did that it just wasn’t a strong pitch.”

The way mine and (& every other biologist I’ve met) can feel their soul leave the body every time we’re made to reduce a species to just a monetary value.

Ok but why’s this book so fun to read 😭 like I see it. 100% this is the future