The history of the formation and development of human society can be represented as a process of changing relationships with the environment. Man has always been an integral part, as well as an important part of nature. However, various changes gradually took place, which allowed the formation of the personality of each individual. Thanks to this, communication and labor developed, a person socialized, created his own system of views - he began to stand out from the existing animal world.
Since the inception of social society, humanity has gradually changed the environment. Unfortunately, for the most part, the influence of man and nature can be described as a destructive interaction.
During the development of such impacts, three main stages can be distinguished. The first is the initial one. Here, the dependence of man on the forces of nature was almost absolute. In turn, there is minimal destructive interaction. Individuals are not able to influence the causes of natural disasters.
The second stage can be described as the time of intensive study of all kinds of physical laws, which, in turn, allowed us to thoroughly examine all the phenomena and processes surrounding each person.
The third stage of knowledge of the outside world continues to this day. At present, all sorts of results of irrational use of the environment are especially acute. The negative consequences personify a significant destructive interaction of nature and society.
Global environmental disasters are a key indicator that can describe the impact described previously. A new scientific direction has also arisen, the main task of which is to study the laws of the existing relations between the world and the individual.
Destructive interaction is the definition of not only the nature of a person’s influence on nature, but also the harm that has been done through tools, as well as its products. It should be noted that the term in question characterizes various activities aimed at the production of material goods. However, at the same time, it is a mechanism of interconnection, a tool that implements the destructive interaction of man relative to the outside world.
At the present stage of development of society, scientists identify several areas of such negative changes. A particularly important role here is played by technological, moral, political, ideological, medical, aesthetic and environmental trends. Without taking into account the components listed above, modern mankind cannot be considered at any of the levels, such as universal, national, and class.
This stage of development made it possible to characterize the industrial use of the environment, the depletion of non-renewable resources, the gas contamination of the atmosphere and the pollution of the biosphere, the destruction of the ozone layer and much more as a destructive interaction.