The article examines the process of merging ethics, ecology and energy management that has lasted for hundreds of years and is a collective product of the world’s knowledge. Nature came to be understood as a complex of living and inanimate organisms. Everything is united in one living important chain. Karl Jaspers draws attention to the efforts of people to get the most out of nature through increased exploitation of resources and violence. Humanist A. Schweizer demanded a reasonable attitude to nature. Ecologist Leopold Aldo also drew attention to this issue. The idea of cosmism was started by Thales of Miletus (624-547 BC). The term "space" - probably introduced by Pythagoras (570-497 BC) Representative of natural philosophy Heraclitus the Dark of Ephesus (540-480 BC) believed: "The world is one and whole. It was never created by anyone". Millennia later, natural philosophy and cosmism received a "second breath". German researcher A. Humboldt (1769-1859) in his book "Space" stated "… two planetary shells, air and sea, which form a single whole in nature, they depend on all the diversity of climates, .. affects the distribution of sea and land", "And the planet as a whole is affected by space…" In 1915, O.L. Chizhevsky (1897-1969) in Moscow wrote a report "Periodic influence of the sun on the Earth's biosphere." The outstanding scientist Academician VI Vernadsky (1863 - 1945) created a comprehensive doctrine of the biosphere. It was Vernadsky who prompted the scientific world to look differently at the problems of mankind related to nature and space. The naturalistic knowledge and cosmism of predecessors was sublimated in the works of the American biologist, ecologist B. Commoner (1917-2012), a professor at Harvard University.1 "Everything is connected with everything and one affects the other." 2 "Nothing arises from nothing and constantly flows somewhere, dissipates" 3 "Nature knows better than man" 4. "There is no free lunch in nature." Exploitation of nature leads to depletion of resources and deformation of its image. The formation of ethical and ecological culture is a multifaceted and long process. Humanism is a careful, sensitive attitude not only to man but also to nature. From education and upbringing to reasonable actions for the sake of harmonious life on the planet. The human factor influencing nature must be careful
Received 09.11.2021
Revised 07.03.2022
Accepted 01.06.2022
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