How to protect nature without conflict with the evolution of the biosphere?

Title : How to protect nature without conflict with the evolution of the biosphere?

Abstract:

The ideology defined in the report as conservative permeates the mentality of the majority of the population and, most prominently, that of many advocates of the environmental movement. Throughout human history, the idea of the constancy of natural systems has been expressed in the concepts of fixism and creationism. Evolutionary ideology, developed in the scientific community, including biology and other fields of global science, clashes ideologically with conservative ideology. Evolutionary ideology is not particularly popular in society, and its practical application is considerably weaker. The purpose of the report is to discuss this contradiction from an evolutionary position. The uniqueness of humans as edificator lies in their ever-increasing consumption of natural resources and transformation of the environment, and in this transformation, the destructive component is the most noticeable, often frightening, component. Numerous publications discuss the growing contradiction between humanity and nature, the disruption of the balance in natural systems by humans, the emergence of environmental problems of various scales, including global ones, the crisis of civilization, sustainable development, and so on. These concepts express humanity's environmental concerns, dominated by the idea of preserving and even restoring the former natural systems of the biosphere—populations, species, biocenoses, and ecosystems. Some authors note the tendency of many colleagues writing on environmental protection to exaggerate the dangers of changes in the state of the biosphere. For example, for Russia as a whole, the problem of preserving biodiversity, compared to many other regions of the world, is not tragically pressing. Environmental problems are in many cases not only exaggerated but even transformed into a kind of environmental bogeyman, used for political purposes and as a means of unfair competition in the economy. In general, topics of environmental issues, nature conservation, and the reality of the noosphere have become an arena for information warfare, in which the importance of scientific qualifications and the reputation of authors, the validity of judgments, and the correctness of assessments have diminished. The so-called "changing world" is the biosphere, which continues to evolve, gradually (but with acceleration!) transforming into the noosphere. V.I. Vernadsky's theory of the noosphere (1945) has attracted a number of critical remarks, numerous controversial statements on this topic can be found online. A call to defend Vernadsky's ideas was recently voiced (Shuper, 2021). Evolution continues, and its results are real—the dynamics of population size and composition, the elimination of individuals due to natural and anthropogenic causes, the extinction of subspecies and species, the transformation and reduction of communities. However, new intraspecific forms and species are also emerging; impressive examples of the emergence of new biological forms are known, for example, from virology. While a theory of the noosphere has not yet been developed, a "noospheric movement" has emerged, encompassing a broad range of opinions representing a variety of ideas: scientific, philosophical, and religious-mystical, with theoretical, educational, journalistic, and practical implications

Biography:

Stanislav Vladimirovich Puchkovsky is a Professor and Doctor of Biological Sciences at the Institute of Natural Sciences, Udmurt State University, Russia, with more than 53 years of academic and teaching experience. Trained originally as a biology teacher at the Tyumen State Pedagogical Institute, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute under Professor S. P. Naumov. He earned his PhD in 1970 with a comparative ecological study of shrews on the Onega Peninsula and later defended his doctoral dissertation in 2000 on comparative survival strategies of brown bears and shrews. A member of the International Bear Association since 2003, his research spans zoology, mammalogy, ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental conservation. He has conducted extensive fieldwork across multiple regions of Russia, including long-term studies in major nature reserves, focusing particularly on the behavioral ecology and communicative activity of brown bears. Professor Puchkovsky is the author of original concepts in evolutionary biology, including biological redundancy and program evolution, and has developed a widely cited framework on brown bear dendroactivity. He has published over 200 scientific works and is the author or co-author of 15 books, including nine scientific monographs, while actively mentoring students and collaborating on long-term ecological research.