The article focuses on the concept of autotrophy of humankind, which relates to the study of the noosphere suggested by geochemist Vladimir I. Vernadsky. Topics discussed include Vernadsky's belief that it would eventually be possible to achieve the synthesis of foodstuffs, so that people would no longer have to depend on other living organisms for nutrition, and the need for human being to become autotrophic in obtaining food and energy in order to save themselves from self-destruction.