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Human Domination Has No Wild Refuges
- Human domination has contaminated land, sea, and sky so no animal habitat is untouched, creating new harms like plastic ingestion and sound pollution.
- Nussbaum cites whales swallowing 88 pounds of plastic and whales stressed by naval sonar as concrete examples of novel human-caused threats.
How The Humpback Contrast Shows Human Harm
- Nussbaum describes a humpback named How who migrates and sings with his pod, contrasting that with whales found with 88 pounds of plastic in their guts.
- This juxtaposes thriving social life versus plastic-caused starvation as a human-created threat.
Capabilities Approach Applies To Animal Flourishing
- Capabilities are species-specific opportunities enabling animals to live their characteristic form of life, not merely states like pleasure or absence of pain.
- Nussbaum proposes creating species lists of protected capabilities up to a threshold level, analogous to her human capabilities list.