Strengthening the natural foundations of environmental safety is the most important element in ensuring the survival and sustainability of both Kyrgyzstan and the planet as a whole. Only Life creates the conditions for Life!
The reduction of natural ecosystems leads to a decline in environmental sustainability and a deterioration of its vital qualities. Life is possible only within communities and within a specific set of conditions characterizing their habitat.
Representatives of the Environmental Movement 'BIOM,' the Global Forest Coalition, and national environmental organizations took part in the National Presentation of the draft resolution of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, 'Nature Knows No Borders.'
Humanity currently faces a number of global challenges. By global challenges, we mean the abrupt changes in the social, informational, and natural environment of human habitation that have occurred over the past 100 years in almost the entire world.
The decline of biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan over a long period of time has been caused by a number of factors, particularly the disruption of the habitat conditions of natural communities or their direct destruction.
Our own State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry does not have enough salaried positions for nature protection, even for those species of animals and plants included in the Red Book of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The tree is a symbol of Life. It gave rise to humankind. Humans are the fruit of the Tree of Life. But a fruit that is unable to reproduce Life, yet is able to worsen and even destroy it.
As is well known, the word 'culture' derives from the Latin 'cultura,' which meant both 'to cultivate' (the land) and 'to perfect' and 'to venerate.' In later usage of the word 'culture,' these nuances were preserved, but it is curious that originally 'culture' meant the transformation of nature in the interests of humans — more precisely, the tilling of the land. And in parallel arises the metaphor 'cultura animi,' used by Cicero — 'the culture (perfection) of the soul,' 'spiritual culture.'
European culture, to which we all owe so much, is, in essence, the fruit of the self-awareness of the former provinces of the Roman Empire. It is not out of the question that a new Eurasian culture will take shape as a result of the development of the self-awareness of the former components of the secular empire. Perhaps a different understanding of the meaning of culture will emerge here, and hence a different culture — especially in the East. Eastern understandings of culture and Eastern cultural traditions unquestionably stand in opposition to what, in the 1920s, was called the 'mechanization of the human soul.'
In 21st-century psychological science, the idea is becoming increasingly widespread that the meaningful perception of the world is a process fundamentally similar to its construction (for example, a 2009 scientific conference of Moscow State University psychologists, held in honor of Academician A. Asmolov's 60th birthday, was devoted to the construction of worlds). In essence, this is one form of the idea of the psychological plurality of worlds, which is encapsulated in the classical formula 'tat tvam asi.'
Here only one way out remains: since one cannot assume that people, taken as a whole in their actions, have any rational purpose of their own, one must try to discover, in the senseless course of human affairs, a purpose of nature.
— I. Kant
