Socio-Technogenic Transformation of the Biotic Cycle of Substances on Earth

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In the article, the authors analyze how, under the influence of the social and technological development of the world, one of the fundamentals of the biosphere is transformed, which includes biogeo-exchange phenomena and processes, alone with the soil cover, living substances of the planet and the living environment formed by it. The active and growing technogenic influence of the society on the biospheric nature begins with the formation of a productive economy, massively building the inanimate artificial world which is called the technosphere. The statistical material analyzes the negative impact of a technogenic society on the constituent parts of the natural nutrient cycle and the losses in soil metabolic processes with destructing the planet soil covers, vast spaces of biospheric forests and injuries. It results in socializing the most important parts of natural gyros replacing it with anthropo-technogenic cycle. This is accompanied by transforming people and domesticated living organisms into the technospheric conditions of urban life in which pathological, genetic and other diseases of the human body, as well as socialized animals, develop. The authors conclude: as a result of the technocratic development of the Earth’s land surface, the anthropo-technogenic cycle of substances is becoming an important part of changing the life evolution – from biospherebiological to sociotechnological, or post-biospheric. Consequently, for preserving biospheric life, it is necessary to reasonably restore many of its fundamentals, including the biotic circulation, the unification of the peoples of the world under the auspices of the UN to jointly solve this global problem.