Cacosphere

The concept was proposed by G. A. Zavarzin in 2003 in his article “The Antipode of the Noosphere ” ^[1] .

In the common sense, “cacosphere” corresponds to the expression “bad ecology”.

In a broader sense, the cacosphere is an area of disharmonious development in the modern world, an area of ​​evil, bad, created by man.

Prior to G. A. Zavarzin, the term “cacosphere” was occasionally used by Soviet and Russian researchers as a rather vague designation of something bad, negative, in biology ( B. Kuzin ) as an image of a certain “sphere of unreason”, which meant everything created by man, and in philosophical science as “the sphere of evil, or the cacosphere within the anthroposphere” ^[2] .

The cacosphere is primarily a phenomenon in the natural environment. Anthropogenic influences led to disruption of the course of natural processes in nature, to the disappearance of thousands of species of living organisms , the appearance of synthetic substances in the natural environment, and the emergence of new, previously impossible processes. Having caused these violations, a person is now forced to constantly eliminate the harmful and dangerous consequences of his own activity, since the natural environment damaged by a person cannot already do this in full (or in principle). Such a new environment created by man, which exists in contradiction with the natural course of natural processes and is hostile to both nature and man, is the cacosphere.

According to G. A. Zavarzin, “The laws of the development of the cacosphere constitute a separate area of ​​knowledge - cacology , associated with the sanitary-epidemiological approach, if we take the human component, and with the protection of nature from humans, given that nature provides" environmental services ", which life-supporting functions of the biosphere . Having lost the “ecological services” of the biosphere, humanity will be forced to live in a huge submarine with an autonomous life support system - a miniature technical embodiment of the noosphere. ” ^[1]

On the other hand, the cacosphere also exists “in the minds”; it is part of the culture of the modern world. Having destroyed the natural environment and replaced it with the cacosphere, humanity has changed itself. “Diseases of civilization”, including cardiovascular diseases, oncological and genetic diseases caused by constant exposure to contaminated environment, the use of modern pharmaceuticals, the consumption of low-quality food, obesity and other diseases are also components of the cacosphere. The constant need of the modern urbanist for additional stimulants, replacing live communication with virtual, replacing art with surrogates of show business can also be attributed to the cacosphere, being one of the components of human activity on the planet and its results.

G. A. Zavarzin contrasted the noosphere with the cacosphere: “It differs also from the noosphere. The area of ​​the mind (noosphere) is characterized by contradictory ideas: here, each new position evokes its antithesis and protest psychological attitude. As a result, dominants in public consciousness are replaced, and the sphere of the mind is in a state of constant instability. The characteristic time for the change of dominants is the decade during which the fashion arises and goes into oblivion. This term is due to the change of generations and their formation. The maintenance of mental instability and the conflicting diversity of ideas is designated as liberalism, historically preceding the phase of instability in the existence of a population. ” ^[1]

If in natural conditions the dominant is the survival of the species , and each individual representative of the species, or individual, acts in accordance with this dominant, then in the cosphere this natural priority changes to the opposite: “Within the population,“ struggle for existence ”,“ survival of the fittest ”led to the idea of ​​the primacy of an individual over a population. Hence the development of cacocracy - the dominance of villains. The Russian word "villain" means a person unfit for social relations, and not just incapable of fulfilling his duties, as you might think. The Greek term "kakocracy" , proposed by academician B.V. Rauschenbach for the period of "initial capital accumulation" in Russia, means the rule of bad people. " ^[1]

Manifestations of the cacosphere in modern life are diverse. “The cacosphere captures the lithosphere - anthropogenic geological bodies arise in it. First of all, these are dumps around large cities. An even larger example of the cacosphere is the mining industry, dumps of which reach billions of tons. ” ^[3] “ The upper boundary of the cacosphere extends beyond the biosphere, as evidenced by the presence of “space debris“ in near space. ” ^[4]

The cacosphere is reflected in society. So, V. M. Livshits writes: “The cacosphere and aggressive human behavior spawned on a scale never seen before. If in earlier times aggressive group behavior (the army) prevailed, now aggression has personified to the level of an individual terrorist. For its salvation, society will have to increasingly restrict the rights of all citizens. ”

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