Living, Dying, and Sharing a Planet
摘要
This chapter addressed the problems of shared habitats of humans and nonhumans as the human population spread and occupies the space that used to be the habitats of other animals. The chapter starts by describing the fate of two specific victims of animals; Freya the walrus and Hvaldimir, the Beluga whale, who both died as result of their encounters with humans in Norway. Reasons for such deadly encounters are discussed in terms of the trespassing of physical, geographical, social, moral and species boundaries. Further, the chapter discusses what the rights of nonhuman animals should be, as well as human obligations towards them as humans and nonhumans share space.