BIOSPHERE APPROACH TO THE ECOLOGICAL SAFETY ASSESSMENT (report at the plenary session of the first conference in commemoration of academician N.P. Laverov, February 2017)
The modern world faces three global trends inducing the biosphere degradation and aggravation of ecological hazards. They are: a) rapid and uncontrolled growth of human population on the Earth and lacking natural resources for its existence; (b) technogenisis development; (c) global climate change and aggravation of natural disasters. Ecological safety along with military security are becoming the crucial condition for the modern civilization survival. To relax the ecological tension on the Earth, the technogenesis strategy should be changed and many other tasks should be solved. These problems should be solved using the biosphere approach, because a human being is the biosphere constituent, and his safety cannot be provided without maintaining the entire natural system on our planet.