You're using this "Lesser Peruvian Fruitbat or whatever" as a rhetorical tactic to make environmental concerns seem silly, but we live on the same planet that t

You're using this "Lesser Peruvian Fruitbat or whatever" as a rhetorical tactic to make environmental concerns seem silly, but we live on the same planet that they do. It's useful to consider extinction rates as a function of general environment health. If the water is so full of shit that the things living in it are dying, that's a good sign that the water isn't going to be good for us either.