Problems of Sustainable Development of the “Nature–Human–Economy” System

The technogenic model of today’s world has created fundamental contradictions, evident in the changing traditional human and cultural values. Social justice, compassion, unity with nature, etc. all come down to utilitarianism and pragmatism, shaping consumer consciousness. In this consciousness, nature is presented as a consumption object, which is based on the principle of anthropocentrism. To overcome these contradictions, changing the environmental and legal thinking and economic development methods of today’s world is necessary. They can be based on the concept of greening and a set of environmental and legal education measures. Being the basis of the life of society, nature is subject to special relations established by the government. In turn, the state is interested in economic development and environmental well-being, constituting a public legal interest. Therefore, it becomes relevant to study problems that ensure sustainable development of the “nature–human–economy” system. One of these problems is environmental and legal education, which shapes socially conscious individuals aligned with universally accepted values such as ecology, culture, morality, and law. The authors analyzed the challenges of achieving sustainable development within the “nature–human–economy” system. Using methods such as dialectics, synergetic, and scientific abstraction, they highlighted the dynamic instability of the system and its dependence on other nonlinear trends and processes in the evolution of social relations. Socialization of people through their perception of external structures by the inner world and the synthesis of ecosophy and legal mentality are the conditions for building environmental and legal education on subjects of legal relations in the ecosphere. Theoretically, the surrounding world can be represented as an integrated circuit in which a person is assigned the role of an interactive and harmonizing element. The way out of the impending critical situation in the “nature–human–economy” system is directly related to the problems of forming a new type of relationship between the structural elements of the “nature–human–economy” system.