EURO-ECO 2011 Hanover 21 - 22 November 2011	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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At present the system “man-nature-society” is affected by the crisis on a global scale. In this respect urgent remain the problems linked with “ecology of culture”, following the definition be D. S. Lichatchev, “the ecology of the soul”. The academician D.S. Lichatchev emphasized in his book “Russian culture” that ecology cannot be restricted to the tasks of preserving the natural biological environment. To preserve man’s life the environment created by the culture of his ancestors and by his own efforts is not less important. Preservation of the cultural environment is the task which is not less significant than preservation of the natural surroundings.

Ecology of culture becomes a leading factor providing the balance between man and nature, man and society, man and civilization. Conceptual unity of ecology of culture and environmental protection is conditioned by the fact that the activities of man are the source of the environmental crisis. The contradiction between man’s efforts to transform natural systems and to introduce as a result new parameters of the natural environment, not fitting for life, can provoke in the end effect the destruction of the ecosystems that are of vital significance.

The newest technologies equipping the anthropogenic activities, on the one side, bring about the growth of production and consumption, and on the other side, destroy irreversibly the balance of the biological bases of existence. Violating the principles of ecological ethics based on the moral attitude of man towards nature results into the loss of cultural values. Cultural and ecological, cultural and creative activities of a man should be aimed, first of all, at self-development, self-perfection in accordance with the basic anthropologic ideas composing the basis of cultural consciousness.

The evolution of culture as a complicatedly structured, self-developing system is based on global interchanges with the environment. Ecology of culture and ecology of nature prove to be interconnected through the principle link – man being part of nature. One should not underestimate the moral significance and impact upon man of entire cultural environment with all its relationships. Ecology of culture means conscious and purposeful efforts of the society to reproduce the diversity of the cultural environment.

Technical progress, abundance of material things in themselves do not mean cultural, spiritual efflorescence proper, they cannot be defined as moral or unmoral: they are neutral. Cultural significance of technical achievements depends on the context of values in which they are used.

The present crisis embraces financial, economic, political, ecological and cultural spheres. Having covered all the fields of human activities, the crisis affected, to a greater extent, the human individual himself. An obviously pragmatic character of life gives rise to disintegration of personality, destruction of its integrity, general amoral attitude, indifference, loss of moral convictions. All this gives cause for the scientists to speak about an anthropologic crisis, about the destruction of the human in an individual, about the loss of value reference-points, about the vanishing of harmonious relationships between the men and the environment. In respect of the latter, environmental issues are becoming an important constituent of contemporary cultural consciousness.

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