This article is devoted to the problem of the ecological crisis as one of the most urgent global matters in the present-day world. The author regards relations of estrangement in the system #man-world# as the key cause of the modern ecological crisis. That#s why the question about the genesis of human estrangement from the surrounding world is an important historic, philosophic and methodological problem, the proper solution of which predestines the exact strategy aimed at optimization of the relations in the current system #man#nature#society#culture#.