This chapter concludes the book by foregrounding the irreparable losses that compensation cannot cover. Multi-sited ethnographic research in peri-urban Lahore (2014–2022) shows that while villagers received high cash returns for land acquired by elite housing schemes, these payments in the name of ‘compensation’ concealed deeper displacements that money cannot replace. Fertile soils were stripped, commons erased and agrarian livelihoods dismantled. Grazing animals once held as financial security were forced to be sold, while walls of seclusion and enclosure rose as reminders of who was deemed “not worthy enough” in the neoliberal development agenda. Communities once sustained by reciprocity, kinship and ecological balance now confront alienation, stranded on psychological and emotional islands, experiencing class polarisation and food and health quality decline. Land, far from being an inert asset, is a living ecology and a moral economy. Its conversion into speculative real estate produces visible disruptions—displacement and ecological degradation and invisible losses: fractured kinship, eroded safety nets, fading memory and belonging. The Covid-19 pandemic underscored the precarity of urban life and the resilience of agrarian ecologies. The chapter concludes that development in peri-urban Lahore is less a promise of prosperity than a political project of ruination. What is lost is beyond repair; what is taken is irreplaceable.