Environmental protection impossibilities

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the mentality of humanity in present times, the structure of human life nowadays and tries to prove that under these it is impossible to solve the problem of getting humankind out of an environmental crisis.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper investigates the ingredients of human life today, i.e. social political and economic aspects, combined all together.

Findings

Our civilization leads deterministically to an environmental deadlock. It follows that one needs to clearly understand that preventing the environmental catastrophe of humankind is impossible. The task of saving humankind altogether is unrealistic.

Originality/value

The only reversal to the present situation is social cohesion, which however is incompatible with the mentality of our civilization. Culture, depended upon the cohesion of the society (community or state), is a outdoing and not a mean average.

Citation

Kaskarelis, I.A. (2013), "Environmental protection impossibilities", Humanomics, Vol. 29 No. 3, pp. 220-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/H-07-2013-0045