ABSTRACT This article addresses extinction and the need for ethical change within our legal system. The article evaluates this issue in the context of law that mediates humanity's use and management of land and by extension the more-than-human species that we share the land with. Humanity frames its relationship with land through property. Whilst land, and the different species, ecosystems and formations that inhabit it represents a physical and material state of being, property exists in a dephysicalised state. Dephysicalisation does not allow humanity to recognise the ontological vulnerability that it is experiencing in concert with the more-than-human species that share the planet and is blinding our legal regimes to the reality of the extinction crisis that is upon us. This is an ethical challenge. I argue that decelerating the extinction crisis in the Anthropocene requires that the exercise of rights is tempered by responsibility. I explain the relationship between dephysical property rights, responsibility and extinction on the backdrop of the Anthropocene using the related concepts of space and place. In contrast to rights that have an abstract and disembodied quality, an ethic of responsibility necessitates that humanity adopt a position where place is mutually constructed by humanity and more-than-human species.

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人类世的灭绝和走向责任伦理

摘要 本文讨论了我们法律体系内的灭绝和道德变革的必要性。本文在调解人类对土地的使用和管理的法律背景下评估了这个问题，并通过扩展与我们共享土地的超越人类的物种进行了评估。人类通过财产来构建其与土地的关系。虽然土地以及栖息在其上的不同物种、生态系统和构造代表了一种物理和物质存在状态，但财产存在于一种去物理化的状态。去物理化不允许人类认识到它与共享地球的超人类物种共同经历的本体论脆弱性，并使我们的法律制度对即将到来的灭绝危机的现实视而不见。这是一个伦理挑战。我认为，要减缓人类世的灭绝危机，就需要通过责任来缓和权利的行使。我用空间和地方的相关概念来解释在人类世背景下的物质产权、责任和灭绝之间的关系。与具有抽象和无实体性质的权利相比，责任伦理要求人类采取一种由人类和超越人类的物种共同构建的位置。