All processes in nature are interconnected - planetary, geophysical, demographic, social, economic... Humanity is not countries and peoples, not races and nations, not classes and parties, it is a single living system. The entire multi-thousand-year history of civilization is a series of catastrophic natural disasters and humanitarian crises of various kinds. And the most terrible of them is "devastation in the heads." It is with this misfortune that Alexander Nikonov consistently fights, helping contemporaries to rise to a higher level of generalization when understanding the processes and crises taking place in the world.