ABSTRACT
Stone took a different approach based on the history of the extension of rights to the previously deemed rightless. Those extensions were not based, he argues, on some universal property of rights bearers previously unrecognized in some class of the rightless, but rather on a much more gerrymandered approach. "Rights" in Stone's sense are a matter of standing. To have such standing, a party must be adversely affected. Moreover, judgment would have to be for the benefit of that party. The road to the ruin of our species is unlikely to be selective, to just cause the demise of our species alone. Indeed on Hansen's scenario, people run the risk of causing the destruction of all life on Earth. The chapter explains that no animals other than humans have a capacity for phenomenal consciousness and ask, if that is so, and they have no obligations to future generations of their own species were they to destroy the planet.
