What Is the Primary Right?

摘要

It is one thing for societies to succeed or fail, as they have for millennia, dragging the fortunes of their members up or down. It is another matter, one deeply political rather than merely "environmental," for modern societies, bloated with billions of people and spanning the globe, to chain everyone in the world to their failings. Climate change, a form of politics without boundaries, is a good example. The nonhuman world, the only place where one is truly let alone, is an ideal stronghold and theoretical baseline against being chained in this way. Its destruction is tyranny because without it we have no choice but to be subject to others, and that is an affront to human autonomy. No one thinks we should be subject to the influence of others against our will. If the nonhuman ceases to exist, we will have no choice.