Ursul, A. D. Global Phenomena and Means of Interaction Between Nature and Society

Abstract: The author of the article attempts to create a broader view on global phenomena and global problems first of all by extending the spatial and time boundaries of their ‘traditional’ analysis. In this regard, the author uses the definition of means of interaction between nature and society (or ‘mean of socio-natural interaction’) for understanding the nature of these global processes. Noteworthy that a number of global processes, for example, global displacement of population and globalization, has deep information– and innovation-based causes. Global problems (or their previous analogues) foresee and accompany all radical transformations in human history. They arise when there are fundamental contradictions in existence and evolution of homo sapiens which creates a shift to the mean of socio-natural interaction and therefore changes the being of the social stage of evolution. Based on examples from the history and the past, the author of the article describes particular analogues with the modern global situation when particular (mostly socio-cultural) global development processes create global contradictions and all kinds of universal problems. Solution of the latter generate new global processes.

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