The Earth's biosphere could be interpreted as a meta-system that integrates anthropocenosis as its component. The anthropocenosis integrates numerous human-created systems in the economy, society, technologies that play the role of system elements of the biosphere. Nature's destruction is unequivocally connected with the activity of these elements. This is because the human-created systems have progressed and become more complicated due to the destruction of the Earth's biosphere. It means a violation of the dialectics of the interaction of the system integrity and its constituent elements. Homeostasis restoration of the Earth's biosphere and anthropocenosis makes the authors rethink the role of human being in the processes of system formation. Only an intellectually autonomous person with high social responsibility is able to integrate the goals of restoring the Earth's biosphere into his ethical values and realize them. So, the UN SDGs will be achieved only if individuals are formed with a conscious mission to restore the Earth's biosphere and its interaction with the anthropocenosis.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected almost all key aspects of human life, from the economy and commodity-money circulation, to society, relations with the state, organizational structures in companies, family ties, and natural disasters. The WEF experts commented on this as follows: “We are at a critical juncture for the future of human societies: we face an unprecedented global humanitarian and health crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic while the hour is late to stave off the worst of the climate and nature crises” (WEF, 2020). In other words, nature has demonstrated to the human community the result that its socio-economic progress has led to without taking into account harmony with the eco-natural environment. From a philosophical point of view, it is about the return of a dialectical approach to interaction with nature on the part of human-created systems. The coronavirus pandemic has provided humanity with a unique chance to rethink the universal laws of scientific, technological and socio-economic progress and form a person who is able to understand them and reasonably dispose of them both in organizing their systemic integrity and in relationships with nature.
COVID-19 has illustrated the marginal state of the economic system as it approaches the breakdown of the structural relations that have long held its integrity and provided progress. It is from these positions that the economic and social lockdown regimes introduced by the state in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus infection should be regarded. And this fact is additional evidence of the exhaustion of the positive potential of the economic systems in statics. This remark is also true for states that ensured the structural integrity of such systems. In this regard all justifications for a Great Reset-oriented strategy (Sutcliffe, 2020; Billimoria and Bishop, 2020; Doumba, 2020; Schwab, et al., 2020) are meaningless. This is explained by the fact that the restoration of structural ties violated by the state in a system that has passed its optimum means counteracting the basic laws of self-organization and self-development, i.e. regress (Pilipenko, et al., 2022).
The specificity of the present moment is manifested in the accelerated divergence of socio-economic systems in the Globe for various reasons, ranging from environmental to humanitarian. This is fraught with fundamental consequences for all systems created by mankind over the past tens of thousands of years. Outwardly, it seems that the order that has taken root during this time has been replaced by a chaos of destruction of systemic relationships. However, if to recognize all human-created systems in the economy and society as integrities, then it should be stated that they have the ability to self-movement, which has been proven by centuries of their complication and progress. In other words, all allegedly chaotic changes in national socio-economic systems and of their interactions with each other and with nature are due to the dialectical laws of their self-movement. In this sense, the apparent chaos is a certain order that needs only to be understood (Pilipenko et al., 2021). The authors come to the statement of this position by consistently applying the theoretical tools of dialectical logic to rethinking unsolved puzzles in the eco-natural environment, in human-created systems, in humanitarian disasters, in the economic and societal crises of our time.
The goal of the authors is to search for the truth in this confusion of problems, which will make it possible to identify and understand the patterns that caused them, the principles that determine both order and chaos (Prigogine et al., 1984; Taleb, 2012), both in the Earth's biosphere (Gumilev, 2012a; 2012b), and in the anthropocenosis. It is about understanding the processes of complication of system integrity in the economy and society, and of the human being as a subjective component of all processes of system formation on the planet.