Culture as a condition for the emergence of the modern type of human. A dramatic rupture with nature.
When we read newspapers, watch television news, or listen to the speeches of statesmen, we become convinced that all our problems can be solved while completely ignoring the living natural world.
As a country, Kyrgyzstan is self-sufficient. As a state, it is incapacitated and insolvent.
The country's natural conditions allow it to provide its population with everything vitally necessary. Moreover, it is capable of becoming a global supplier of clean drinking water and environmentally safe food produc
Culture is a phenomenon of spiritual, aesthetic production and consumption. When material consumption begins to predominate, when it becomes the primary meaning of life, culture inevitably degrades — followed by the individual, society, and humanity.
In one underdeveloped country, in response to a plea for help from a mother of many children who found herself in a desperate situation, 'compassionate' Western benefactors suggested selling one of her children 'for organs' so that the proceeds could somehow help the rest.
Our own State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry does not have enough salaried positions for nature protection, even for those species of animals and plants included in the Red Book of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The problem of biodiversity conservation has arisen because the intensity of anthropogenic impact on biota now exceeds its capacity to compensate for the negative consequences of that impact.
Vecherniy Bishkek, July 13, 2012.
The tourist season at Issyk-Kul is in full swing. Thousands of people come to the lakeside to enjoy its beauty and take a dip in this unique lake. The summer period brings income to the local population, yet it is precisely during this season that the lake becomes, perhaps, most polluted.
We live in a world that is becoming ever more simplified. Moreover, in a world becoming ever more primitive. What is wrong with that? The problem is that, in such a world, what is good keeps getting worse. Life is being replaced by degeneration. For the worse hinders the return, the revival, of the good.
Human activity that does not take into account the need to conserve nature and its most important part — biological diversity — leads to the degradation of habitats.
The history of the modern type of human, the true human, begins with the appearance of the phenomenon of culture in the world. Humans evolved from pre-human ancestors not when they began making tools and laboring (animals are capable of this too), but when they began to produce and consume the phenomena of culture.
