On Natural Nihilism of analysts of the Post-Industrial Society
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-556620195121-130
Abstract
Attention is drawn to the serious miscalculations of well-known theorists of post-industrial society, which limited to sociological and economic analysis and underestimating the role of the geographical environment. Recognizing the need to create a “normal environment” (D. Bell), the theorists of “the society of the future”, in fact, abstract from the biosphere basis of Man, from the accelerating transformation of the age-old biogeochemical cycle of substances on the planet and dangerous damage to the “film of life”. This position is associated by the authors with geographical nihilism. They are convinced that the recognition of such main source of modern progress as knowledge, which can change the world around us, is not a reason to articulate future society in isolation from the natural world. No “post-economic society” can function without extractive industries, agricultural sector, natural recreation areas, etc. It is emphasized that the idea of a “non-natural society” is promoted by well-known authors without taking into account at least half of humanity, where poverty, disease, hunger and malnutrition continue to tear society “at the seams” and where the “golden billion” draws raw materials. It is concluded that the creation of a “knowledge society” in Russia is unthinkable without the use of abundant natural resources necessary for the multi-cost replacement of the main part of the production funds and the accumulation of budgetary funds.
About the Authors
Yu. N. Gladkiy
Herzen State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
V. D. Sukhorukov
Herzen State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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- A vulnerable place in the writings of the most authoritative analysts of the post-industrial society is the underestimation of the role of the natural component.
- Among the criteria elements of a new society, the state of the ecological environment is often also left behind the brackets.
- Separation from the natural world invalidates the claim to the integrity of any concept of post-industrial society.
- Geography and ecology, embodying the interaction of natural and social sciences, are called upon to make a more substantial contribution to the analysis of post-industrial society.
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Gladkiy Yu.N., Sukhorukov V.D. On Natural Nihilism of analysts of the Post-Industrial Society. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2019;(5):121-130. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-556620195121-130
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