The author claims that traces of global destruction of nature at vicinity and sides of Mt. Elbrus are clearly visible today, not only to ecology specialists, and that it means the danger to life on Earth became real. Concern urges the author to raise a question about sequence of events in the next 40 or 50 years. Since the Planet Earth ecosystem status is defined by too many random factors, the author considers possible scenarios of Earth ecosystem destruction insisting on obviousness of their immediacy: the way of nature destruction processes will determine environment preservation and recovery activities of humanity.
Keywords: destruction scenarios; Earth ecosystem; ecological problems; environment.
References
- Litvinov A. I. Priel’brus’e — “Okno” v ekosistemu Zemli. Ekologicheskie problemy (Vicinity of the Mount Elbrus as the “Window” to Earth’s Ecosystem. Ecological Problems), Ekonomicheskie i sotsial’no-gumanitarnye issledovaniya, 2015, No. 4 (8), pp. 47—56.
https://doi.org/10.24151/2409-1073-2017-3-119-131