ACTIVATION OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE BACKDROP OF THE ONGOING ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
The opinion on inexhaustibility of natural resources vanished in the middle of the XX century along with understanding of threat of global ecological crisis. Economic growth became the main factor of degradation of environment. The technogenic civilization is focused on uncontrollable consumption of natural resources. The modern situation demands search of new ways of social development and strengthening of responsibility of people for preservation of environment. Nowadays anti-ecological forms of behavior of the person prevail. They are connected with domination of values of the technological civilization which is based on an imperative of progress and proceeding from an anthropocentrism paradigm. This type of a civilization perceives environment only as a subsistence of human community and is focused on consumption of natural resources.