Sustainable Development: Interaction Between Ecological And Social Cultures[Устойчивое Развитие: Взаимосвязь Экологической И Социальной Культур]

For realizing ideas of sustainable development it is necessary to have an idea of the basic laws and laws of development of the surrounding world (the sphere of ecological culture) and the laws and trends of development of humankind itself (the sphere of social culture). In the first case the natural science picture of the world plays the most important role, in the second case it is the knowledge of the evolutionary patterns of one’s own development. The article considers interaction of the biosphere and humanity, which are at different levels of systemic orientation, which leads to an insoluble confrontation between them. This confrontation can be mitigated only by reducing the magnitude of the total anthropogenic impact on the biosphere, but this requires a paradigm shift in the development of humankind, which is unlikely to be. Comparison of the forms of interaction of existence, consisting of three realities (objective, subjective and subjective-objective) and levels of cyclic orientation made it possible to clarify the shape of the spirals of the general evolutionary process (their schematic image is given in the article). On the basis of open regularities, possible evolutionary prospects for the development of humankind are studied. It is concluded that the reduction of anthropogenic impact is possible through the accelerated transition of humankind to the next level of evolutionary development.