Chinghiz Aitmatov about a precipice between people and alive suffering nature and the formation of ecological consciousness

Abstract

Relations of Kyrgyz nomadic people with Nature developed for millennia as relations of “mother-and-child” fostering deep respect for Nature and careful attitude to it. Under the conditions of nomads’ spatial world view and freedom, a steady political vertical and sacral power was not formed among nomadic people. The role of power and education belonged to Nature itself dictating its severe laws of survival and to elder generations who transferred traditional knowledge, experiences, values, and skills to younger generations. 

The new times and new civilizations have absorbed traditions of the nomadic civilization. Contemporary globalization is characterized by expansion of nature and its resources, political-economic expansion of countries and nations, transformation of the world culture into a primitive mass-culture. And ecological humanism is totally forgotten.  

The works of our great compatriot and writer Chinghiz Aitmatov revive the careful and tender attitude to Mother-Nature. The writer reveals not only deep understanding of internal essence of humans and their actions, but also perceives feelings and thoughts of our “smaller fellows”, pets, birds, and animals living near us under the one sky.  

How to restore traditional knowledge, experience, moral and spiritual values which were so common to Kyrgyz nomadic people?  What must happen to make us think about it? The authors of the article “How to overcome a deep precipice between humans and alive nature?”  seek to find answers to these questions. They substantiate a systematic approach to the formation of ecological consciousness through introduction to the minds of people of a new measure of values related to humans and nature.