Creative heritage of V.I. Vernadsky and global challenges of sustainable development

Vladimir Grachev

doi:10.14738/assrj.62.5191

Abstract

The present article considers main aspects of creative heritage of V.I. Vernadsky in the sphere of global processes. It is shown that Vernadsky's theory of three main components of sustainable economic development (labor, capital, and creativity) is fundamental in the development of contemporary economy. The economic processes taking place in the present-day world are largely directed towards making a profit in the speculative turnover of capital, rather from using scientific and technological progress to meet the needs of people. The analysis of the interrelations of global problems of sustainable development in the economy, environment, and social sphere, allowed drawing the conclusion that the world could be destroyed by global fraud of speculative capital rather than by global warming. Based upon the latest report of the Club of Rome (2017), this path, disastrous for the modern world, has found understanding of the public. It is the aspiration for enrichment that creates some "global" problems. This is primarily related to the "global warming" problem. There is no such problem. There is a problem of global processes in the climate and the desire of economic elites to profit from this problem.The solution to global problems is associated with the noosphere balances and acceptable, equitable, and feasible conditions for sustainable development. The creative heritage of Vernadsky indicates the right way to address global challenges. This is creative thought, complementing the global natural balances based on homeostasis, and noospheric balances based on the world mind.Sustainable development embarks on a path of noosphere genesis, i.e. it is based on noospheric development, which is reasonable not only from the viewpoint of the mind of a single individual, but on the basis of the world mind and collective intelligence.

Highlights

In the first quarter of the XXIst century, the world felt the reality of global problems
The radical reconstruction of our country must be based on scientific thought - daring, deep and free, looking for new ways
The creative heritage of Vernadsky clearly shows that the basis for meeting the global challenges of modern civilization is scientific thought

Summary

INTRODUCTION

In the first quarter of the XXIst century, the world felt the reality of global problems. Great Russian scientist Vernadsky addressed in his works almost all the problems The study of his creative heritage can be useful in terms of meeting global challenges. It is the role and place of intelligent principles in social activity that determines the formation of the noospheric idea It is not a matter of the term of "noosphere", which due to the scientific authority of Vernadsky has largely become quite widespread in the USSR, and in Russia and a number of post-Soviet countries. The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at the APEC summit in 2010 said: “At the beginning of the twentieth century our compatriot Vladimir Vernadsky created a doctrine of a unifying space, the noosphere It combines the interests of countries and people, nature, society, scientific knowledge and public policy. The Club of Rome comes to this conclusion through the search for wisdom: NOOS is the mind, the noospheric approach is wisdom

Sustainable development ecology

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