One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, author of world famous works on mineralogy and geochemistry. Starting from the 10s of the last century, V. I. Vernadsky focuses more and more attention on the biosphere of the Earth. After all, many geological processes are based on the influence of solar heat and atmospheric oxygen. Not only organic minerals (oil, coal, hydrates, etc.) are of biological origin. Inorganic minerals also reflect the effects of biomass on them.
Since the 1920s, he has been talking about the impact on the course of natural processes not specifically of nature, but of purposeful human activity. Through their work, the working masses imperceptibly and gradually became one of the powerful geological forces. This is how the concept of the noosphere was born. Vernadsky understands it as the modern biosphere, of which humanity is considered a part. Before people, - he said, - before their thoughts and work, the question of updating the biosphere in favor of civilization as a single organism was raised.
As determined by V. I. Vernadsky, the noosphere is the newest geological shell of the planet, which is created on the basis of a scientific approach. It is considered as the result of the action of two revolutionary processes united in a single stream: inareas of scientific thought and in the sphere of social relations. Therefore, according to Vernadsky, the noosphere is created as a result of a strong union of those factors that serve as the basis for these processes, in other words, the unity of science and the working masses.
Vernadsky, whose noosphere, as a doctrine, is still developing today, connects it with the action of even more phenomena: the unity of the biosphere and humanity, the unification of the human race, human activity is of a planetary nature, it is also commensurate with geological processes, the purposeful development of forms of communication, the desire for peace between peoples, the unprecedented successes of science and technology. Summarizing these factors at once, drawing an inextricable link between the further evolution of nature and the development of civilization, and introduces V. I. Vernadsky "noosphere", as a concept.
However, the views of the scientist did not coincide with the then ideology of the state. For example, in the Small Soviet Encyclopedia (1934) he is described as professing an idealistic philosophy. In scientific writings, he is characterized by the ideological "neutralism" of science, he defends religion, mysticism, while denying materialistic dialectics. In addition to the mind, as Vernadsky argued, the noosphere also has the spirit of the people, or its "biofield", as a driving force. This remark is not without foundation, since it has been noticed that natural disasters take place in places of popular unrest. And only today these assumptions have received experimental confirmation.
Vernadsky's ideas were ahead of their timethe author's life. Only now, in conditions of a critical aggravation of problems of a global nature, are his words becoming clear. People's power, a democratic approach to the organization of public life, the evolution of culture, science and the revival of people's life, a fundamental revision of the approach to nature management - all this constitutes the noosphere. The fate of the Earth and the fate of mankind are one fate.
