The Earth is Our Common Home

摘要

For thousands of years, man has been mastering the planet Earth by using all the natural resources including water, air, land, and minerals for the vital activity of mankind. At present, more than 7 billion people inhabit our planet, and the ever-growing resources are required to accommodate their needs. The supercritical situation has arisen with the renewal and restoration of the human environment, and primarily with the preservation of high quality and genetically safe sources of drinking water. I submit that it is the water basin of the planet that constitutes the main "immune system" of the biosphere. This powerful buffer zone has resisted and neutralized all technogenic loads originated by the economic activity of man. However, even now, at the beginning of the XXI century, it can be stated that the planet, its whole ecosystem, and biosphere, including the multitude of the whole aggregate of organisms, especially of microflora inhabiting our plant are in the state of world technogenic transformation of enormous scale.