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An attempt to substantiate priorities of global ecology has been undertaken with an emphasis on two principal aspects: 1) heat balance of the Earth and anthropogenically induced redistribution of its components; 2) closed nature of global biogeochemical cycles. It has been shown that the ecological faith of the Earth depends first of all on biosphere dynamics disturbed by man's impact. The Global Change programmes worked out in the U.S. and France have been summarized to analyse their advantages and disadvantages. The principal conclusion is that further discussion is necessary, preferably at the UN level. The Second UN Conference on Environment and Development will opens such a possibility.
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Kondratyev, K.Y. Global ecology priorities. Il Nuovo Cimento C 15, 123–132 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02507607
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