Our species is not intelligent enough to survive our relationship with technology. We face now, in a single generation, choices we are entirely unprepared for. Choices that will determine whether we live in thriving ecologies, like organisms -must-, or thriving technologies, like those who have destroyed their living world must.

There are many features of these issues we are not prepared to comprehend. But one is relatively simple.

Human rights begins with healthy natural and social ecologies. There can be neither ‘humans’ nor ‘rights’ in the midst of toxic ecologies, whether these be accidental, the result of war or commerce, or the outcomes of the continual prevalence of human attention and care -=to machines=- instead of organisms and each other.

Without healthy ecologies, we can neither be human, nor have rights.

So, step one for any reasonable vision of ‘human rights’ is the establishment and protection of complexly, diversely healthy social and ecological contexts.

Without these?

No humans. No rights. Nothing.