Environmental threats and national security of Ukraine

The social form of movement of the mankind is associated with its organizational activities. For its survival it is forced to enter the environment of chaos, which is an entropy. This is inherent in all heterotropic systems. The difference is only that when other heterotropic systems can enter the balance with the biosphere and their contribution in the growth of entropy is compensated by the influx of nongentropia (measures of orderliness) in the form of solar energy, which is assimilated by plants, then for the human activity it is fundamentally impossible.

The only source of environmentally friendly energy, which reduces the artificially generated chaos, is a solar energy. All other energy sources, except that wind power, are environmentally harmful. Equilibrium in nature can only be stored when the biosphere using the free energy of the Sun compensates for the growth of entropy. Unfortunately, this equilibrium has long been violated and continues to collapse with a catastrophic acceleration.

«The energy that the Earth receives from the Sun has a higher quality than the energy that the Earth emits into the space, although the values of both energies are the same (because otherwise the land would be warmed up, or would be frozen). Due to the difference in these qualities the being on Earth is improved. The quality of the energy flow is determined by information. Consequently, the flow of energy coming from the Sun to Earth carries more information than the flow of energy that the land emits into the space. A certain amount of the solar radiation information is digested. This is a universal source of improvement, source of value added on Earth. The assimilation of solar radiation information begins with the reaction of photosynthesis. When using a catalyst, which is a chlorophyll green sheet, from molecules of carbon dioxide and water and two types of light, oxygen and glucose molecule are formed, this is a source of primary information for all living on Earth, the source of value added. The primary information undergoes a huge number of secondary transformations, creating more or less developed chains of processes in everything alive. The human society is characterized by its ability to assimilate and transform information. Each separate tree, animal, human is characterized by their perfection in their assimilation and transformation of information they receive from the outside, from the environment. <...>

The green leaf becomes a dominant problem. It is advisable to deal with the environment, which has a larger specific information, with a more perfect environment» Там само..

As already noted, the main source of all processes occurring in the biosphere is the solar energy. It is accumulated in oil, coal, natural gas. And this energy of the «past biosphere», a human spends thoughtlessly. The human should think about all possible consequences of his behavior and activities. However, the humanity continues to brutally change the environment. And thus the environment affects everything alive on the planet, including the human. Despite the catastrophic deterioration of the environment, a human does not want to radically change his environmental behavior.

«Why does a human do it all? A greed for a faster movement and comfort. The energy intensity of human life is increasing. If you take an annual cost per person in the XVII century, now they are on average for all humanity grew 600 times. The costs necessary for the metal due to the human life increased. And for the death too. The calculations show that for the one soldier killed in the Second World War there were spent 5.5 tons of ammunition. And how much paper is consumed in the world, for which production the “lungs of our planet” - forests - are used!» Там само..

The same thought follows G. Bachynskyy: «Unfortunately, the desire of the fast enrichment, unbridled gate of things and pleasures, vanity, envy, aggressiveness, desire to dominate the others, wastefulness and other negative features of the human nature became the cause of the predatory exploitation of the natural riches of our planet. The economic activity is aimed on the consumer and consumption. It has many times been enhanced by achievements of the scientific and technological progress and thus violated the dynamic equilibrium of the Earth's socio-ecosytems and caused its progressing destruction. Between the human society (in Latin - societas) and the environment of its existence (in Ancient Greek - oikos) arose an acute contradiction - a global socioecological crisis that has threatened the further existence of the humanity on Earth» Бачинський, ГО. (1996), «Український шлях у майбутнє», Універсум, № 3-4, c. 18..

A human satiates the environment of his existence by chemically active substances, a significant part of which causes the genetic damage (mutations). Moreover, it weakens itself genetically and reduces its immune protection (T-lymphocytes) and seems to prepare itself to self-destruction as a result of the attack of microorganisms. Homo Sapiens promotes mutability and creating virulent strains of bacteria and other microorganisms.

Despite the fact that the rivers, lakes, swamps are an extremely complex system, no less important than the blood circulation system in the human body, Homo Sapiens «shaded» the water arteries with artificial rubles, caused salinity of soils, drained marshes - as if it has removed peculiar kidneys from the body of water exchange.

The human accelerated the circulation of many chemical elements, which the Nature accumulated millions of years, brutally interferes the circulation of water on the Planet. The human has polluted the world ocean so much that it occurred in front of the threat of the gradual extinction. And this is due to the fact that it gives the atmosphere of the planet up to 80 percent of oxygen.

One of the signs of life is the confrontation to the entropy processes. Thanks to the mind, Homo Sapiens assimilates the nongentropy. That is, the entropy decreases. The correct solution of the one or another task means the creation of an additional nongentropia. Instead, mistakes, admitted by a human, mean an increase in uncertainty, disorders, that is, an increase in entropy. From the point of view of physics in every isolated system - this is the second law of thermodynamics - the entire entropy and chaos increase.

Today, the Planet has already raised a problem of the social entropy, political entropy, entropy of thinking. By analogy to the physical extent of uncertainty there was a concept of the information entropy - the measures of uncertainty or unpredictability of information, lack of its reliability and completeness.

According to the second law of thermodynamics and thermal scattering of energy, the further increase of the industrial capacities (even preservation of production at the current level of operation of enterprises) will lead to the melting of glaciers and raising water levels in the oceans, already so polluted that it is before the threat of gradual extinction - it is primarily about the threat of destruction of plankton, the death of oxygen algae, which give the atmosphere of the Planet about 80 percent of oxygen.

The group of specialists revealed that the Atlantic Ocean flow almost completely lost its stability. Thus, the Gulf Stream reached a minimum speed over the past 1600 years. In the significance, Amazon tropical forests and Antarctica glaciers can suffer seriously.

A human led to the formation of the so called «ozone holes» - defects of the ionic shell on the poles of the globe. This jeopardizes the ecosystem that Nature created during millions of years - this ecosystem is biosphere.

A human contributes to the mutability and creating virulent strains of bacteria and viruses for his body, it satiates the environment with chemically active substances, a significant part of which causes genetic damage (mutations).

The worst thing is that the human leads this war not because of some congenital train to «villain», but due to the capacity to influence the environment and adapting it in accordance with his needs.

Such an amount of pollution and damaged ecosystems has not been seen since the Second World War. The system analyst Nataliya Globa states: «Snowless winters are coming to Ukraine, the dry land becomes mobile and, in the absence of obstacles, is easily blown away by the wind. Uncontrolled land use, lack of forest belts, perennial plantations on huge territories turn Ukraine into a desert. No financial power of agricultural holdings will help them cope with such a disaster» Globa N. Hirshe za koronavirus: yak Ukrayina peretvoryuyetsya na pustelyu. URL: https://glavred.net/ opinions/girshe-za-koronavirus-vak-ukraiina-peretvorvuvetsva-na -pustelvu-10166258.html.

In the war against Ukraine, Russia not only kills people, destroys settlements and infrastructure. Explosions and fires lead to the air and water pollution, destruction of forests and unique ecosystems. As of the end of June, the Ukrainian Center for Environmental Initiatives «Ekodiya» recorded almost 340 cases of the negative impact of war on the environment Нинько, Дар'я (2022), «Викиди, брухт і пожежі: як війна нищить довкілля України», DW,

1 лип. URL: https://www.dw.com/uk/vvkvdv-brukht-i-pozhezhi-vak-viina-nvshchvt-dovkillia-ukrainy/a-62323748 (дата останнього перегляду: 17.11.2022).. The head of the climate department of this public organization, Yevgenia Zasyadko, says that as a result of the destruction by Russian missiles of treatment facilities and sewers, the polluted water enters rivers. For example, in April, in Ternopil region, fragments of a downed Russian rocket fell into a mineral fertilizer warehouse located quite close to the Ikva river. As a result, fertilizers got into the reservoir. A few days after that, fish plague was recorded in the Rivne region. Reservoirs in the south and east of Ukraine are most negatively affected. There is a risk of accidents at nuclear power plants. Damage of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant - the largest one in Europe - would lead to a catastrophe, it would be the second Chernobyl.

The Operational Headquarters of the State Environmental Inspection, where more than 70 scientists from all over the world work, deals with recording the consequences of bombing, destruction of industrial facilities and service systems. The inspectorate has already processed about 300 environmental crimes and calculated more than UAH 200 billion in damages for just a few of them. Oleksiy Obrizan, head of the Working Group of International Experts of the State Environmental Inspection, talks about the ecological consequences of the war: «In the first place are fires on fields, forests and in unique ecosystems such as the Kinburn Spit. This is accompanied by emissions of combustion products into the atmosphere, which are quite harmful. The second place is the burning of oil depots, commercial and industrial facilities. In third place there are emissions into the atmosphere from the movement of military equipment Крикуненко, Ірина (2022), «Після війни стане коротшим життя. Еколог розповідає, як обстріли впливають на воду, повітря й Грунти в Україні», НВ, 22 трав. URL: https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/ events/vak-vivna-vplivave-na-vodu-povitrva-ta-zemlvu-ukraiini-ekspert-novini-ukraiini-50243604.html (дата останнього перегляду: 16.11.2022)..

The war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine is causing serious environmental damage to the Ukrainian state. Combat operations spoil the air, pollute water bodies, destroy forests and unique ecosystems, destroy crops and, in the long run, can cause colossal damage to the ecosystem of the whole Eastern Europe, and shorten the lives of Ukrainians.

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