An Ecologically Oriented Human Environment is an Integral Criterion for the Quality of Life

Abstract

Issues of new environmental risks and direct threats to the health and life of current living people with the advent of the post-industrial period of the fourth technological revolution and new forms of communication without borders and customs are examined. The global and liberal economy, according to world experts, has transformed into a "zombie economics of global post-truth." Such a transformation has given rise to a whole range of new environmental risks and threats for those living in the process of production and use of a wide range of goods and services. The various examples that have already manifested themselves in the current life of living people show the need for the formation of a twofold concept of sustainable development — resource-saving and biospheric — as its equivalent components. It is noted that the natural environment cannot change as quickly as the volume of innovations of the fourth technological revolution breaks into world politics and the economy. This increases the contradictions of the “zombie economics” and the global “post-truth” with the flora and fauna surrounding us, the billionth world of living organisms of the Earth’s biosphere, and expands the environmental risks and threats that are dangerous for our immediate descendants.