Environmental the problem of modern

Everything is interconnected with everything - says the first environmental law. Hence, the step can not be stepped, without hitting, and sometimes not breaking anything from the environment. Each step of a man on an ordinary lawn is a dozen ruined microorganisms, frightened off insects, changing migration routes, and maybe reducing their natural productivity.

Before the appearance of man and his active attitude to nature in the living world, the mutual harmonious dependence and coherence dominated, one can say that there was ecological harmony. With the emergence of man begins the process of violation of ecological harmony, harmonic balance. This process began 40 thousand years ago, when the ancestor of man acquired the ability to think, began to make an instrument of labor, to use knowledge, draw and in his activity to produce means for life. But, mastering nature in the process of labor activity, a person did not take into account the need to respect the laws prevailing in the biosphere and his activities violated the equilibrium of conditions and influences in the natural environment. Due to the small number of human populations in the early historical epochs, a negative attitude towards nature did not lead to numerous violations in the natural environment. People left the places where they spoiled the natural environment, populated new ones, and in the old places there was a rapid restoration of nature. Meanwhile, with the development of productive forces that allow us to master nature with great scope and increase in the number of inhabitants on Earth, the degradation of the natural environment reaches an unprecedented level of danger for the very existence of people, so that it is fully justified to talk about an ecological crisis that can develop into an ecological catastrophe.

Environmental problems, which are expressed in the violation of the equilibrium of conditions and influences in the human ecological environment, arose as a result of the exploiter's attitude to nature, the rapid growth of technology, the scope of industrialization and population growth. The development of natural resources is so great that the question arose of their use in the future. Pollution of the natural environment is expressed in increasing smog, dead lakes, water that can not be drunk, deadly radiation and the extinction of biological species. Human impact on terrestrial ecosystems, which in their totality, interconnections and interdependencies form the Earth's ecosystem as a planet, causes changes in the complex system of the human environment. A negative consequence of this impact is expressed as a threat to the ecological conditions of the holistic existence of people, the threat of environmental conditions to the holistic existence of people, a threat to health through air, water and food that are contaminated with substances produced by man.

Pollution of the natural environment produces quantitative and qualitative pollutants. Quantitative pollutants are substances that humans do not create, they exist in nature, but a person releases a large number of them, and this leads to a violation of ecological balance. Quality pollutants - substances produced by man -synthetic substances. They have a negative impact on living beings and on humans, because against them the human body has no opportunity to defend itself. Meanwhile, a person can influence the amount of quantitative pollutants in three main ways: by breaking the cycle of metabolism when releasing a large number of substances, considered as neutral, but which violates the established natural balance; releasing a limited amount of material on a small surface that is naturally in a natural state, which can lead to undesirable catastrophic consequences on this space, the addition of a hazardous substance even at the site of its natural concentration.

The degradation of the natural environment depends both on the number and concentration of the population, and on the volume of production and consumption. In modern society, all these factors acted in such a way that the human environment was heavily polluted. People over the last century have allowed too much increase in production and distribution of waste, by-products and chemicals. Pollution badly damages life on our planet, humanity itself. We pollute the air and water, we live in such noise and dust that no animal will tolerate.

Today, the violation of ecological balance is expressed in many forms. One can say that there is a common opinion that the main forms are: irrational exploitation of non-renewable natural resources (sources of raw materials and energy), accompanied by the danger of quickly exhausting; contamination of the biosphere by harmful wastes; a large concentration of economic facilities and urbanization, the impoverishment of natural landscapes and the reduction of free areas for recreation and treatment. The main reasons for these forms of expressing the ecological crisis are rapid economic growth and forced industrialization, leading to urbanization.

Rapid economic growth based on the development of productive forces ensures their further development, improvement of working conditions, reduction of poverty and increase of social wealth, raising cultural and material wealth of society and increasing the average life expectancy.

The degradation of the natural environment and the resulting environmental disturbances are not a product of only technological development and the expression of temporary and accidental violations. On the contrary, the degradation of the natural environment is an indicator of the deepest industrial civilization and the highly intensive mode of production. Since the industrial system of capitalism greatly increases the possibilities of production and power over the natural, it also contains the seeds of the systematic dispersion of human and natural forces. Economic expansion of the productive potential, where it is rational only that it brings profit (power, money and opportunities), is achieved at the cost of dispersal of natural sources and ambience ... Production based on three pillars: profit, opportunity, prestige, on artificial stimulation of needs, artificial wear and accelerated replacement of production products, is becoming one of the main causes of the violation of nature. Therefore, protection of the natural environment from degradation, more precisely protection of the natural environment, and improvement in modern society can not occur in inhuman relations based on blind pursuit of profit.1

The disturbance of the ecological balance in the modern world has assumed such dimensions that there has been a disturbance of the balance between the natural systems necessary for life and the industrial, technological and demographic needs of mankind. Signs of environmental problems include food, demographic explosion, depletion of natural resources (sources of raw materials and energy) and air and water pollution.