UN General Assembly
2015

The same selfish attitude is characteristic of humankind’s approach to nature. For many years now, the international community has been trying, with no success, to meet the challenges of climate change. Many simply prefer to shift the burden of responsibility onto others, onto the next generation. Thinking about such problems, one cannot help arriving at a certain idea. It seems there is one deep- rooted source of those crises and challenges. It is an artificial cult of individual rights and human freedoms at the expense of collective social interests. Under the guise of protecting human rights, advocates of such ideas seek to justify the ousting and overthrow of Governments, the destruction of States and wars over resources. Chaos and anarchy are proliferating. A predatory attitude towards nature and the pursuit of easy profits are being fostered. That leads to the degradation of human consciousness, in which someone’s perverted whims are treated as the norm. Such approaches give a green light to social degradation and the decay of moral principles and human values. The very boundary between good and evil disappears.