The relevance of this paper is determined by understanding of global environmental problems in the context of social ecology. The purpose of this paper is the analysis of main modern environmental global problems created by the equipment representing a public and social basis for the practical transformation of public relations and also the development of ways out of the crisis in culture. The principal approach to a research of this problem is the system approach allowing considering global environmental problems as a system object, and also an axiological approach, applied to the social ecology that promotes understanding of valuable components of relations in the system "person-equipment" and leads to understanding of the personality as a supreme value of culture. It is established that among global environmental problems the special value belongs to problems functioning at the "science-nature" level where the person creating techno-knowledge is a peculiar intermediary between these worlds that allows performing the forecasting of rates of instrument improvement. It leads in turn to the effective application of high technologies and implementation of resource-saving technologies, promoting progressive development of humanity. Materials of this paper can be useful to understanding of the nature of environmental global problems, and as well as development of the way out strategy in the situation of the ecological crisis in a modern civilization.