Verdnasky... To explain reality and truth

We have adopted the criterion that was always expressed by the Meridian-Zullian lawyer and educator, Dr Pedro Silva Simancas, to explain the environment, our planet, our humanity.

The reality is the environment and the natural laws, unavoidable, always present. The truth is an agreement between humanity, it is changeable, yesterday there was a truth that gave way to what is true today, maybe tomorrow it is not.

The truth is within the prevailing Historical Framework, coexisting with the dissidences of minorities or oppressed masses, in their different manifestations of science, philosophy, politics, culture, communication, religion and any social, community, family manifestation.

The Russian scientist Wladimir Verdnasky lived in the late 19th century and in the early 20th century he developed an explanation of our planet. This scientist, also creator of pedology, explained that in the evolution of our Mother Earth, from the beginning it was governed and shaped by planetary laws, by planetary physics and chemistry. He called this period the Geosphere.

Life appears and develops on our planet, expressed as a biological diversity, changing in its evolution. Wladimir Verdnasky calls this period the Biosphere. The living beings, that is to say, the biological diversity or the Biosphere, also model our planet, included as compartments in the biogeochemical cycles.

In this evolution of the Biosphere, the hominids appear, within these, humanity. Humanity develops changes to the planet and even in a particular way, interprets the planet, even to the extreme of alienation. The Russian scientist called this period the Noosphere.

Some scientists, philosophers and many people have taken up the study of the Noosphere, assuming that our humanity is above the Geosphere and the Biosphere, justifying our actions, even, actions against nature. We have assumed and called this vision a "fishbowl effect", arbitrarily interpreted by humanity itself that we are not a factor in an ecosystem or other higher hierarchical environment, but that humanity is outside and sees those environments as if they were in a fishbowl.

The 1972 Stockholm Summit, The Human Environment Summit, was a landmark event in this phase, as it concluded that the environment did not belong to humanity, but rather that humanity is part or a factor of the environment.

We can appreciate in Wladimir Verdnasky's proposals that in our planet the Geosphere, the Biosphere and the Noosphere coexist. That explanation of our planet Mother Earth, is an interpretation of reality and truth that the teacher and lawyer, Dr Pedro Silva, taught us. The reality is the Geosphere and the Biosphere, the truth is the Noosphere.

Base source:

Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich. The Biosphere, A.Machado Libros, S.A. 1997.

2.- Samson, Paul R. The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global Environment, Society and Change. Routledge, 1999