Opisany osobennosti koevolyutsii cheloveka i prirody, privedshie k ee otstupleniyu i poyavleniyu priznakov global'nogo ekologicheskogo krizisa. Predpolagaemaya prichina nedal'novidnykh i neratsional'nykh vzaimootnosheniy sostoit v filogeneticheskikh osobennostyakh myshleniya, vyzvannykh slozhnym stroeniem mozga, vklyuchayushchego drevnie (zhivotnye) i novye struktury. Dlya myshleniya cheloveka kharakterny sushchestvennaya rol' drevnikh struktur mozga i svyazannykh s nimi emotsiy i chuvstv, ogranichennost' ob"ema kratkovremennoy pamyati, i dr. Eto privelo k uproshchennomu myshleniyu i, kak sledstvie, - k protivorechiyam mezhdu takim myshleniem i slozhnoy, vzaimosvyazannoy v global'noy seti zhizni, prirodoy Zemli, kotoroy chelovek pytaetsya upravlyat'. Uchityvaya, chto vazhneyshaya tsel' chelovechestva - ego sokhranenie vmeste s neobkhodimoy dlya etogo prirodoy Zemli, na peredniy plan vydvigayutsya aktual'nye tseli: neotlozhnoe sokrashchenie ekologicheskogo sleda chelovechestva, perekhod k nulevomu rostu i dazhe sokrashcheniyu nekotorykh vidov deyatel'nosti; vozvrat k idee sokhraneniya 2/3 prirody planety v estestvennom sostoyanii; obespechenie s tsel'yu vyzhivaniya ravnogo dostupa vsekh zhiteley planety ko vsem resursam; izuchenie problemy optimal'nogo rasseleniya, i pr.