SOCIAL ECOLOGY AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN WORLD.

Social ecology significantly changes scientific thinking, develops new theoretical approaches and methodological orientations among representatives of various sciences. It is the formation of a new ecological thinking. The problems of social ecology are usually called the most acute and urgent among the global problems of the time, on the solution of which depend the possibilities of survival both of humanity itself and of all our life on Earth. In the subject of social ecology, above all, the theoretical and philosophical approach to the relations in the system "man - society - nature" is reflected. Social ecology considers both the impact of man on the environment and the impact of the environment on man in society with its undeveloped technology, but also social relations in urbanized society. As a result of intensive material production, man permanently and irreversibly alters the ecological balance and thus creates ecological problems. Environmental problems are global because they cover the entire biosphere. The reasons for the emergence of global problems are: the rates of consumption of the planet's natural resources; the problems related to poverty and the unreasonable increase in welfare; population increase and increasing demands on natural resources [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]