By Rodrigo A. Guajardo
Developing BioHumaNomics
This is an examination on when a
community, a region, or country is in economic disarray, sometimes the
introduction and integration of Bioeconomics with the existing Human Capital,
conveys a stable socio-economic development, a sustainable industry, and
bonanza for the region. This study
encompasses the inclusion of the human stock of competencies, knowledge, social
and personality attributes, including a technological creativity to be embodied in the ability to perform labor,
so as to produce economic value.
Human Capital & Bioeconomics
Human Capital
The concept and notion of “Human Capital” refers to the
accumulation of a set of mastered skills and applicable knowledge that is an
intrinsic part of the capacity and ability of individuals (humans) to perform,
execute, and carry out labor. Labor is a
precious commodity. It is a measure of
the work done by human beings so as to produce an economic value, which is the
value of the labor itself, and the value of its use as to produce a worth in
exchange for the labor.
These abilities that make up the human capital are highly
diversified and heterogeneous; with high and low ends in technology and
knowledge, all require some level of expertise to yield a tangible value. The ability to perform labor that requires
high technological level and vast knowledge does not necessarily mean that this
labor will yield a higher value in exchange.
An example of this is that in impoverished countries a nanotechnology
engineer will struggle to survive and to find a job, while a construction worker
will earn his living with less difficulty and more opportunities.
In order for a nation to attain a relevant advantage and
effectively benefit from a superior output of manufacturing, it needs to be in
possession and control of a particular resource or commodity. This particular resource can also be a
particular technique or knowledge that enhance and escalate production
proficiency by reducing the need for massive supplies and resources, or it can
be a labor stock, a fungible resource whose distinctive pieces are capable of
reciprocal substitution, or a “know-how” principle, thus reducing the adverse
risk of changes in international trade that are normally ruled by the
technological levels, sophistication, and complexity of countries.
How do we develop the Human Capital to become effective and to produce a high value in exchange?
I think the answer to this riddle resides in the application and
fusion of Bioeconomics and Human
Capital. According to the American
economist Gary Becker (1930- ), we use sociobiology to explain human behavior
in a capitalist economic system, where maximizing the focus of behavior, the
market equilibrium and established inclination is the key for an effective and
sustainable economic approach. I do
believe that there is also the necessity to generate fungible resources,
standardized and easily interchangeable to uphold and cultivate labor,
commodities, resources, and markets.
This would steadily lead to a security in the sustainment of
labor, to a decrease of the unwelcomed effects of the technological gap between
countries, and to the lessening of regional economic hardships where other
countries have a ruthless trade advantage because of their tremendous ability
to innovate. A country can achieve
extreme technological efficiency and
reach tremendous trade advantages, but it is always vulnerable of a trade
deficit as of result of disproportionate internal production costs and labor
unrest.
Adam Smith (June 16. 1723 - July 17, 1790)
Adam Smith was a prominent
western social philosopher from the school of Classical Economics born in
Kirkcaldy, Scotland; and a pioneer of what we know as "political
economy". He developed ideas such
as Classical economics, where his work "The Wealth of Nations"
published in 1776 is considered the
beginning of classical economics. Other ideas such as modern free
market, where prices are determined by supply and demand; the division of
labor, which talks about the specialization of cooperative labor in
specific, hemmed in specific tasks and roles alike; and coined the metaphor the
"invisible hand", a term modern economists employ to
describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. Adam Smith defines Human Capital as:
“Fourthly, of the acquired and useful abilities of all
the inhabitants or members of the society. The acquisition of such talents, by
the maintenance of the acquirer during his education, study, or apprenticeship,
always costs a real expense, which is a capital fixed and realized, as it were,
in his person. Those talents, as they make a part of his fortune, so do they
likewise that of the society to which he belongs. The improved dexterity of a
workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade
which facilitates and abridges labor, and which, though it costs a certain
expense, repays that expense with a profit.”.
Strategic Remuneration
The way we pay our employees determine if they are treated as
humans beings, or simply as a commodity.
It is sad to realize that most companies do not have workers in their
ranks, but cashable commodities that can be sacrificed to recover from
financial losses, or used to cover lack of profits. The company simply will get rid of their
workers to savage the profits of the administration and the stockholders. In this there is no dignity or moral
demureness, and the human beings are traded as a simple commodity of a spare
value.
The only irreplaceable asset that any industry will ever have, is
their workers; their Human Capital. An
enterprise without Human Capital, of any size, cannot exist. The most successful businesses and the most flourishing
countries will be those that understand the value of their Human Capital, and
treated with respect, fairness, and dignity.
Fair wages will always secure the management of Human Capital in the
most effective and efficient manner and provide the company a steady and secure
pace to a balanced growth.
Strategic remuneration is not about tactics, but about fairness to
establish the difference between treating your labor force as Human Capital, or
as a commodity. Human Capital possesses
social capital, commodities; not.
"The foundation
of the health of your wallet rests on the health of your worker's
wallets".
- Me.
Bioeconomics
Bioeconomics is the
theory of economic exploitation of living resources. These resources are associated with two
dynamic systems: population
dynamics and the
dynamics of the economic system of the target region; where the population
dynamics determines the availability and capacity of the labor force, and the
economic system is the
combination of the various agencies, entities, and/or sectors that provide the
economic structure that defines the social community and their capacity to
compete in the market.
In our format and method, Bioeconomics is defined as an economic
mechanism that seeks to manage renewable resources so as to create or as to optimize,
a computation of net present value. In
order for these to succeed, these concepts must be reeled into an institution
capable of managing and make these concepts work.
Why into an institution?
When transactions and information are difficult to implement and to
maintain, and when business dealings are costly, and the exchange of values
between supply and demand are non-simultaneous or reciprocal; then institutions
make a difference. They become of
importance because the volume of the trade of goods under turbulent
circumstances can impair the industry.
The industry can be severely affected by labor behavior, raw material
availability, political unrest, economic opportunistic behavior, governmental
agency interference, and social stability.
Solidly established institutions can constrain and manage these
disruptive behaviors, allowing the partakers to take advantage of the gains
from trade and specialization that Bioeconomics brings. Institutions also facilitating cooperation,
bring stability, and entice individuals to adhere to institutional rules
because they achieve security and regulatory stability by doing so. The individual advantages derived from a well
established and solid institution towards its members, are indivisible from the
structure of the institutions and from the profit of its members; serving this
way to the interests of the group, as well as those of the individual.
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994)
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born as Nicolae Georgescu
in Constanta, Kingdom of Romania.
He was a brilliant Romanian-American mathematician, an statistician, and a
prolific economist.
Georgescu-Roegen's contribution to social economics was his
development of a comprehensive theory of economy, society, and biophysical
constraints. He called this new approach
"Bioeconomics" and
published his most accessible statement of it in this Review, in 1977. Bioeconomics
-also: Biophysical Economics, or the origins of Ecological Economy- is the
study of the dynamics of living resources using economic models.
"Indeed Georgescu
first put forward "Bioeconomics" as a discipline based on parallel
knowledge and application of social, economical, and biophysical principles and
emphasized the importance of an understanding on the reciprocal influence of
these principles".
- © Kozo Mayumi and John M. Gowdy 1999.
Respect for the land and its inhabitants
The land is not just the land, and does not belong just to
us. We share this planet with animals,
insects, plants, marine creatures, and other human beings. We are experts in displacing, destroying, or
annihilate other species in favor of our own survival; but it does not have to
be this way. We can be more
conscientious of the other creatures of the planet, and we can try to maintain a balance between
them, and our survival. Consideration is
a small word with a gigantic content, and every time we are considerate, we grow
as human beings. We have invented
respect, dignity, and fairness, and we should share these principles with other
creatures to live in harmony without living on a severe moral diet. Coexistence and survival are harmonic
principles integrated to BioHumaNomics.
So, how we make all of this work?
Although the formula seems to be very simple, the concept and its
implementation are more difficult and tricky to put into practice, and
moreover; maintain it in a balanced and enduring manner. History has shown that when a community, a
region, or country is in economic disarray, sometimes the integration of
Bioeconomics into the existing Human Capital happens by chance, out of despair,
and sometimes out of survival necessity.
Let’s take rice, for example.
Rice is fundamental in Asia , and it has
a long and interesting history.
In regions of Asia , scientists
believe that after the lands long inhabited by humans were flooded, all living
vegetation, plants, and flora were destroyed.
Then, the destruction of the Biota brought animal extinction, thus
making hunting very difficult and sustainment for human beings was extremely
difficult, if not impossible. One day,
as the ancient, but popular tale tells, a dog came scampering across a hunting
field, and it was sighted by the chinese hunters who were looking for prey in
the field. As the hunters carefully
approached the dog, they noticed that the dog’s fur was scattered with some
unusual yellow seeds affixed to it. The
chinese people thought that it could be seeds and not knowing what these
kernels were, they tasted them, bite them, and finally took them home, and
planted them. As a result, according to
the folkloric story, rice grew out of these seeds.
All of the sudden, this small, miraculous grain that awkwardly
arrived on a dog’s back, fed tens of millions of people for extended periods of
time, longer than any other known grain did until that time. Several species of rice are in existence, but
it is widely believed that rice species were developed from other forms of it,
towards the end of the Tertiary Period, almost at the end of the Miocene Epoch
and the beginning of the Pliocene Epoch, approximately 15 million years
ago. We humans showed up next in the
Quaternary Period, about 1.6 million years ago.
Early evidence from archeologists’ findings showed that rice was a
commodity and a significant economic factor dating back as early as 2500 BC
during the late Neolithic period in the Yangtze basin. In 1966, an important discovery in South East Asia was made by Wilhelm G. Solheim II, an
American anthropologist, son of Wilhelm
G. Solheim I, a botanist. He
found fragments and remains of pottery that had clear imprints of rice on
them. These olden ceramic objects were
discovered in Nakorn Ratchasima ,
Thailand
The chinese people in due course gave rise to a process of growing
and producing rice, developed knowledge to do it properly, and employed tens of
thousands of people to bring to fruition this massive industry. Today, this long-standing system is still
widely used in China China
So there you have it. An
alliance between human capital and Bioeconomics was born out of necessity,
curiosity, and survival neediness, and this relationship is still alive and
productive. No knowledge and or skills
were present at the beginning, but they were developed and incorporated later.
Now, can we create today a model combining Human Capital and Bioeconomics today?
In my humble opinion; yes, of course we can!; and we can do this
engaging the help of a prehistoric specie form the Miocene Period, more than 10
million years old, and more than 7.5 million before man walked earth: The
Agaves.
I have been working on the development of a socio-economic and
geopolitical model with a large foundation that rests on an industry of
eco-products and bio-commodities, and with the intention to foster a profitable
business, but at the same time, acting from a sense of fiduciary duty,
responsibility, and conscientiousness to Human Capital and to the fragile human
race.
I faithfully believe that today in several parts of the globe
exist unexploited gold mines of opportunity based on Bioeconomics, powered by
Human Capital, and backed by the “know-how” principle. I consider these the three magic ingredients
for the healthy and prosperous development of regions, countries, and humans.
Paradigm
History has had an instrumental influence on the model of
this project, specifically by the historic annals of the Magnoliophyta
Agavaceae plant family, and the peninsula
of Yucatán
Like everything else this utopia evolved and near the
1850s, the fate of this industry changed radically. Industry practices, science, technology and
the omnipotent progress of commerce rendered vulnerable this trade in Yucatán,
and before long brought the industry to its knees. The wealth in Yucatán has been dormant
since. Today, the abundance of this
remarkable plant genus and its treasures within is virtually limitless in the
region, offering a plentiful source of raw material.
The industrial and economic business concept developed for
the dormant riches of Yucatán is based on a series of revolutionary “green”
bio-commodities, environmentally safe products; a unique line of products which
is derived in part from the Magnoliophyta genus; but it is also the result of a
long and exhaustive process where the local conditions were analyzed, problems
and opportunities were recognized, and targets, goals and objectives
identified. There are specifically
designed strategies to accomplish those goals and objectives, harmonized
activities conceived to implement such strategies to finally, set foundation to
evaluate progress.
Based on these fundamentals I see a solid opportunity to
reactivate and invigorate the bio-industry, its abundant by-products, to create
a solid economic base, and to establish a wide industrial foundation to serve a
number of products; for the common benefit of the region and the human Capital
that inhabit the zone. A
multidisciplinary commercial foundation can be established to support the
systematic building of the Magnoliophyta Agavaceae industry in a determined
region, aimed to surpass the economic growth of the past, and complemented with
safety contrivances to prevent a possible economic and commercial failure.
In the case of Mexico, this vision of growth and development
is mirrored in the Treaty of the States of the Gulf of
México . This international
agreement was signed in 1995 by the governors of eleven combined States of
México, and the United States ,
where Alabama , Florida ,
Louisiana , Mississippi ,
and Texas are on the U.S. side, and Campeche ,
Quintana Roo , Tabasco ,
Tamaulipas , Veracruz Gulf of México – with the
objective of defining mutual interests, forming consensus, and building a
political willpower to craft new programs in the areas of domestic protection
and security, economic development, education, agriculture, and commerce. With the determination of working together
within the agreement, these bordering states have taken significant steps
towards the goals of developing the commercial, tourism, and infrastructure
progress under NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
The "Bioeconomics-Human Capital" hypothesis is
guided by a new natural anti-corrosive technology called Averter™. This multifarious Averter™ is a novel
hydro-colloidal compound assembled into a bio-base formulation. This industry can bring economic development
and the benefits of technology transfer to the area through the implementation
of Bioeconomics and its fusion with the
element that is abundant in the region: Human Capital. Then, we incorporate the little known secret
of our “knowhow” little secret.
Modern Neoclassical Economics versus Ecological Economics
"Neoclassical Economics" its
a catchy and preppy term used by modern self appointed avant-garde economists
when referring to economic fields that spotlight
calculation of prices, productivity, and proceeds distributions in the
marketplace through the forces of supply and
demand. This simple principle (supply
and demand) it is frequently arbitrated through a hypothesized capitalization of transitive,
complete, and continuous utilities or
services by earnings-restricted people; and by the
neoclassical microeconomic term "profit" by cost-constrained firms, in
concordance with the "Rational Choice Theory".
Neoclassical Economics presupposes non-abrasive economics,
continuously symmetrically balanced,
where the trade spheres and its commodities are concurrent and coincident. It also assumes that the trade negotiators
and their sophisticated instruments have dominance of knowledge.
Really?... Neoclassical Economics
are dead.
David Colander (November 1947 - present)
David C. Colander is
the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. He is known for his study of the economics
profession itself, and the sociology of economics. His books The Making of an Economist and its later edition, The Making of an Economist,
Redux, have been called "essential reading for prospective graduate
students". He has
authored over 35 books and 100 articles on a wide variety of subjects. On IDEAS, he is listed in the top
5% of authors in a number of categories.
He has expressed interest in complexity
economics. His latest
work focuses on economic education, complexity, and the methodology appropriate
to applied policy economics.
- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Colander.
"The term “neoclassical economics” was born in 1900; in this paper I am proposing economist-assisted terminasia; by the powers vested in me as president of the History of Economics Society, I hereby declare the term neoclassical economics dead. Let me be clear about what I am sentencing to death—it is not the content of neoclassical economics. As I will discuss below, it is difficult to determine what that content is, and even if I wanted to kill the content, I have no role in determining content. The role of historians of thought is to record, not determine, content. What I am declaring dead is the term."
- David Colander, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 22, Number 2, 2000.
"The term “neoclassical economics” was born in 1900; in this paper I am proposing economist-assisted terminasia; by the powers vested in me as president of the History of Economics Society, I hereby declare the term neoclassical economics dead. Let me be clear about what I am sentencing to death—it is not the content of neoclassical economics. As I will discuss below, it is difficult to determine what that content is, and even if I wanted to kill the content, I have no role in determining content. The role of historians of thought is to record, not determine, content. What I am declaring dead is the term."
- David Colander, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 22, Number 2, 2000.
However
On the other hand, "Ecological Economics" is a a research strategy that encompasses different disciplinary
boundaries, in other words; it is a transdisciplinarity research with
objectives that set sights on the interdependence and coevolution and
balance between human economic enterprises and the conservation
of natural ecosystems. Now this, is real.
Ecological and Environmental economics are different in their
approach, but both boast sustainability, and we are committed to turn these
into a cooperative and alloyable approach to accomplish our goals of
integrating Bioeconomics and Human Capital.
BioHumaNomics (Rodrigo A. Guajardo, 19... - and still vibrant)
I had the crazy idea of calling this multifarious and proactive
concept of combining Bioeconomics, Human Capital, the levelheaded part of
Neoclassical Economics and the
principles of Ecological Economics, and a selected potpourri of ideas from Biophysical
Economics and the sound principles of Ecological Economy: "BioHumaNomics". From another point of view, BioHumaNomics can be referred
as an inspired new archetype of the down-to-earth art of complicated simplicity.
In BioHumaNomics, I put the same equilibrated weight and
importance in the inputs, value, and harmony of earth resources, human work,
and the interdependent economic bond of both.
Harmony of principles will lead to synchronization of mechanisms,
therefore; leading to the plentiful benefits of generous and stable outputs.
In order to successfully implement and maintain these branches of
learning, it must exist a stretch interrelationship and a realistic association
between discipline, respect, care, dignity, responsibility, and profit; altogether fast spiraling ideas into the vortex of an anthropocentristic movement.
Discipline
In
its original and most pure sense, discipline is the voluntary regulation of our
behaviors, and furthermore; the methodical teachings provided to civilized people to educate them on the proper procedures for any activity which they will perform.
Self-discipline can be defined as the ability to motivate
oneself to perform in spite of an uncomfortable or difficult situation; or the
pressures of a harsh state of affairs. Some
of the positive and necessary traits coupled with self-discipline include
willpower, hard work, and persistence.
Self-discipline is a mere product of the perseverance of
willpower. While willpower is seen as the
vigor and the capacity to execute a task, self-discipline is the ability to make
use of it consistently and routinely.
In BioHumaNomics, discipline delivers a strong relationship
between willpower as to the engine of power, and self-discipline as to the control
of that engine. Discipline builds the
decisive pathway to success.
"The first and best victory is to
conquer self."
- Plato
Respect
Respect gives a constructive and encouraging impression
of regard and appreciation for an individual; it gives a person
value. Respect is underlined and
endorsed by actions and conduct. Unambiguous ethics and moral codes are of essential
and elementary consequence to any culture.
In BioHumaNomics, respect is one of the keystones were
success is built upon, and were self-respect is the first stone. Respect needs to be fostered with love and
care because you cannot buy it in the store.
“Respect
yourself and others will respect you.”
-
Confucius
Care
To care or not to care, that is the dilemma. Any organization, group, or individual
prospers when they draw off and exploit the tremendous energy and magic that each
of us harvest within: understanding, sympathy, compassion, and the uncanny ability
to reach out to link with other people.
In BioHumaNomics this is terminally essential. Nothing happens without people, and people
are all different, therefore we have to care for each other, look after each
other, understand each other, and tolerate each other as if we are doing it for
ourselves. Tolerance is not submission,
but logical care.
“The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the
first and only legitimate object of good government.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Dignity
Dignity is the best coin to pay for human conscience. Any act without dignity towards a human being,
is like a bitter victory without glory. Dignity
denotes respect and status, and commences with proper self-respect.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, an Italian philosopher of the
Renaissance, granted dignity to ideas and to beings in his "Oration on the Dignity of Man". He told about the dignity of the liberal arts,
and his comments implied the dignity of philosophers.
In BioHumaNomics we must redraw the perception of the human's
social and economic landscape, and make it the axis of all attention, and put
some dignity on the Human Capital's capacity and its humanitarian perspective.
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the
consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle
Responsibility
Since we were able to understand words, we have being taught
about responsibility, however, we still haven't learned anything serious about
it yet. Just look at the way we are
organized as humans, and the responsibility we profess to our poor planet. It is sickening.
In BioHumaNomics we ought to embrace and practice collective
and universal responsibility. This is a
very weird and unfair concept because individuals like you and me are supposed
to be held responsible for other people's actions by abiding, overlooking, or being
indolent to them and their acts, all of these, without even collaborating in
these actions in an active form; however, by going along with it, we are guilty
as charged.
So, the only way to not pay for other's errors, is to get
responsibly, collectible involved.
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Sir Winston S. Churchill
Profit
Oh, my! What a
word! There are extremely complicated
explanations for this word in neoclassical microeconomic theory that
range whilst from explicit and implicit opportunity costs, economic profit,
abnormal profit , pure profit , supernormal, or excess
profit, as the case may be monopoly or oligopoly profit; or even
economic rent. In Marxian economics
would be the accumulation of capital.
And don't forget the externality costs.
BioHumaNomics pushes for a form more tilted to social profits. These "profits" are attained
through unambiguous and unselfish social entrepreneurship. The good part of social
entrepreneurship is that financially nourish and fortifies individuals and conscientious
organizations that bear and hold up important social values that benefit communities
that have been disenfranchised emotionally, marginalized socially, or disadvantaged economically.
Between you and me, in BioHumaNomics; profit is simply the
benefit that Human Capital, resources, and the social economy obtain for their
own good and advantage. The
sole focal point and center of attention of our work is not only on revenue
generation, but also on the strengthening of humans, humanity, and the
community itself.
No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what
you most affect”
- Sir William Shakespeare
Something Else...
I don't want or wish for these principles to become an "economic
theory". I want it to be a hard-pedaling
reality. Theories just spin their wheels
on the metaphysical and imaginative camps of endless byzantine discussions, and
in deadly sessions of "theorizing" about the future. This doesn't work because the future doesn't
exist; only the present is real. You can
argue that, but I will not considered it into my BioHumaNomics concept. So, there.
I fished from, and I learn much of these ideas from the
International Red Cross' gifted slogan: "Help
Can't Wait". This are the words
with the most common sense, and are the most realistic approach to human need
that I have heard in a very long time. So, we must respect and give dignity to humans
and earth in any activity we carry out.
"We do not own Earth, sometimes we are just an aggravating section
of her Biota."
- Rodrigo A. Guajardo
Here it is how it can be done
First, let's review the initial inventory necessary to built a
region to fulfill the implementation requirements of this inclusive hypothesis
of the baptisma:
"BioHumaNomics".
The necessary pillars to built and make this concept work, are
simple and easy to achieve, however, all of them are necessary and
achievable. As an example, I will use
Yucatán, Mexico, because we have a working industry there, and we have consolidated
all the necessary elements to start the industry in a massive scale.
Raw material. - The
actual production of raw material in rural southern Mexico
Human Capital.
– There is a tremendous raw human capital available in rural southern Mexico Mexico
The production of hydrocolloids require about 1-2% of highly
prepared workers, about 7% of technicians, being left at least 91% of the
available work for unskilled workers.
Minimal learning is required to sustain a job, even if the population is
illiterate, which is a positive detail because about 2.2% of the population
have completed high school in Yucatán, and only 1.5% has a college level.
Technology for Production.
– There is no advanced technology available in Yucatán that is required to
manufacture hydrocolloids; however, we can bring and implement the new
technology necessary to produce an array of products that are
colloidal-based. In spite of the high
technological level of this manufacturing equipment, this machinery is easy to install,
cheap to maintain and replace, and relatively simple to operate.
Industrial
Resources. – There is a 50-year reforestation and
cultivation program in place to reach by the year 2022 a production of raw
material of 1.1 million tons per year.
This will yield an estimated 27,500,000 liters per year of usable
material to produce hydrocolloids. The
required necessary Human Capital to sustain this growth is available.
Industrial Infrastructure. –
Southern Mexico possesses
an appropriate basic infrastructure to support
economical growth to include international airports,
commercial airports, an extensive network of roads and railroads, diversified
transports, commercial ports, “maquiladoras”, “desfibradoras”, an international
commerce system in place, strong government, a solid stock of wonderful Human
Capital, direct access to U.S. markets and of course; lots of raw material.
Global market.
– The global market for the anti corrosive Averter™ is more than 50 times
bigger than the market in the United
States United States U.S.
The “know-how”. – This is an important element and
another difficult and sticky area because of intellectual property
implications, intangible assets issues, and because it is also an important
factor in the progression into technology transfer in national and
international environments. Also, you
have to consider elements such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights when
conveying technology to someone else because all of this independently or
combined, are a powerful and tangible economic asset. The good news is that this technology exists
and it is proven. This technology can
champion the development and implementation of this project, and the swift
manufacturing of cheap, transferable, safe, and fully biodegradable colloidal
commodities through this concept of BioHumaNomics.
This technology (the Averter™) and the development of the project did
encompassed more than 15 years of R&D, effort, trials, ingenuity,
investment, patience, endurance, tryouts, and most important of all, an
unbelievable amount of imagination.
The chief purpose at the heart of BioHumaNomics, is to seek socio-economic development and prosperity for the common benefit of many.
Preliminary Steps and Groundwork to Determine the Feasibility of Implementing and Developing the Averter™ Project in a Potential Environment
Preface
The steps
reviewed below are performed in a sequential and sometimes, in a parallel mode
depending of the availability, electability, capacity of sustainable inventory,
and legal access to the capabilities of a region. After that these initials steps have been
complete, a determination will be done on if the region can support the project
in a successfully and sustainable way.
Scoping out the potential of the region or the convergence of regions
One of the early preliminary steps is to identify if the target
area possesses the agricultural capability to sustain the growth and
sustainable multiplication of several Agavaceae species. The fact that the target area has some
Agavaceae species as native stock, it does not necessarily means that other
similar species will survive. In order
to measure survival perils and to determine plant subsistence; ground mechanics
has to be performed to include ground analysis, salinity levels, acidity
concentration, biota diversification, humidity amounts, temperature
differentials, weather fluctuations, insect control, plants pests and diseases
exposure, foreign contaminants; and to research for any conflicting links
between micro aggregate formation, soil biota, biota transfer, soil organic
matter dynamics, and soil tolerance.
These studies has to be made as well in plantation's convergence regions
to include soil biotic activity, soil organic matter decomposition and
stabilization, and soil aggregate dynamics.
Testing the viability of the echelon in the region
Selective plantation and industrial utilization are done by
voluntary and managed contribution to the source of raw materials needed for
the manufacturing of the Averter™. This
has the advantage to generate a continuum of agricultural cycles to ensure the
provision of raw material. However in a
suburban zone, or to the echelon of a
region or a territory, the voluntary contribution specific to the source of raw
material can prove to be insufficient, considering the volumes of product to be
manufactured. So, in selecting an
agricultural zone, we must include the echelon of surrounding lands as a
potential part of the plantations to provide growth and sustainability in the
future, and to secure safe and productive soil turnaround, to maximize soil
productivity to support a region's redundant viability strategy. The goal of our long-term focuses in work
that strengthens and safeguards the region’s viability and sustainability for
the long term, rather than confine our efforts to short-term goals.
Assessment of the region's idiosyncrasy and government
Local (or national) idiosyncrasy is of utmost and paramount
importance, and also a critical component for success in the Age of
Globalization; this is because idiosyncrasy alone is responsible for the
generation of new paradigms. At the end,
the innate idiosyncrasy of a human group will (or will not) embrace this
industry. Political idiosyncrasy, social
idiosyncrasy, and government idiosyncrasy live always together in an explosive
and unstable environment; no matter how "civilized" is a country or a
region, however, there are some factors that are common to them, and are also
items that bring stability and progress; such as the creation of fairly paid
jobs, proactive social development, the creation of vertical markets, and the
implementation of independent economies of scale. If the idiosyncrasy and the government of a
region embraces this project, the chances of long-term success are excellent.
Demographics, Economy Data, Human Capital and Ethnolinguistics
Although we know that Morocco possesses a demographic and an
economic census data which breaks roughly into these areas: Population,
Languages, Status of women, Main populated areas, Education, Vital Statistics,
Ethnic groups, Religions, and Literacy; the specifics on a determined region
potentially apt for our industry, especially regarding its stock in Human
Capital and skill sets, are unknown for us now. We have to create an inventory of items such
as age range, income range, number of supporting business by type and category,
industry class and their grouping, and legal and social organization in the
geographic area, and that is compatible with our category of business. Ethnolinguistics is important not only for
communication, but because they are a close
relationship between language and culture, and the way different ethnic
groups perceive the world, and it is a natural combination between ethnology and
linguistics. Ethnolinguistics refers to
the way of life of an entire community, including all the characteristics which
distinguish one community from another.
Those characteristics make the cultural aspects of a community or a
society.
Evaluation on the possible implementation of Bioeconomics
Since the science of Bioeconomics deals with the
economics of living resources exploitation and population dynamics, this influences
greatly the dynamics of economic systems.
For these reasons, the coexistence and coordination of Human Capital and
renewable resources are critical for the success of this industry. A detailed knowledge of the dynamics
governing these factors and its longevity, are a chief concern for the
stability and progress of the industry; also it is important the viability of
implanting Bioeconomics in a new region.
Invasive species
"Invasive species", "Non-native species", or
"Invasive Exotics" plants or animals that normally affect adversely the bioregions they invade,
are coined terms used to depict certain flora and fauna. These foreign species, who disrupt a biota by
taking over imposing a dominant and forced colonization, propagate themselves
until they exercise complete hegemony in a region, by disrupting the region's
natural controls by forming a "phytocoenosis" -or a community of
plant species-, restricted and contained to a designated biogeographical
area. Collected data on risks and
effects posed by invasive species on other environments have been quantified
and re-quantified many times by experts, and nothing good has ever come out of
these arbitrary conclusions. Even the
name of this singularity has been
tainted as mischievous sprite with poor, bad, and with terminology and titles
without imagination and of undeserved level.
In any case, we must responsible assess the potential and possible
impact of our plants into the new environment.
Assessment of skills set and audits of strengths
This is practically our labor force inventory and its skill set
needed for this new industry. Like any
new industry, the skill set might not be available, and the labor force must be
properly trained on a specific skill.
The velocity and absorption capacity of the new skill will depend
directly on the strength (capacity to learn) of the labor force, and in its
education level. Our ability to compare
the current skills set within the targeted region with its future needs, and our capacity to
create a skills development map in its absence; will be challenging to say the
least. Therefore, training and
development of personnel are our most strategic imperatives to ensure we keep a
competitive edge, in the local and global market. This in itself can put a strain on available
resources, whilst moving focus away from our project core business activities.
Assessment of public industrial infrastructure
An empirical investigation
of the correlates of industrial development in an target area of backward economy, can reveal interesting
facts. Although the individual items of
infrastructure contribute a lot to industrial development, a sustainable
industrial development rests in the industrial infrastructure as a whole. The overall
contribution of infrastructure to industrial development establishes a
highly significant coefficient of composite indices of infrastructure variables
such as uneven levels of proficiency or coverage of the infrastructure as a
whole. We have to consider the cost
associated with the need for implementation of new infrastructure; or the
improving of the existent industrial infrastructural facilities to a large
extent to accommodate for the desired level of industrial development. Appropriated industrial infrastructure of services
and facilities with a basic physical and organizational configuration
are necessary for the operation of our enterprise, and for the
industrial economics to function.
Assessment of environmental impact
We must complete a thorough environmental impact assessment to evaluate
the
possible positive or negative impacts that our project may have on the
environment, and on the environmental, social and economic aspects of the
region. The sole purpose of the
assessment, is to make certain that decision consider the ensuing environmental
impacts when deciding whether to proceed with our project, or not. As well as noticeable direct effects,
industrial developments cause a whole host of indirect effects through
consumption of goods and services, production of building materials, use of
equipment and machinery, and the additional land use for other various
activities related to manufacturing and industrial services. The indirect effects of industrial
development is frequently an order of magnitude higher than the direct effects
assessed. Industrial responsibility with
the environment is of utmost importance.
Assessment of social impact and economies of scale
In industrial development, social impact refers to how our
organization's actions might affect the surrounding community. Social impacts can affect areas such as
health and community. We must consider
the three basic rules of social impact: The first rule is that social impact is
the result of social forces, including the strength of the source of impact,
the immediacy of the event, and the number of sources exerting the impact. The second rule is the psychosocial rule that
says the amount of impact tends to increase as the number of sources increases. The third rule is that the number of targets
also affects social impact. The more targets of impact that exist, the less
impact each individual target feels. In microeconomics, economies
of scale refers to the cost advantages that our enterprise obtains due to
its expansion. There are factors that
will cause our average cost per unit to fall as the scale of output is
increased. This affects the local
economy as much as it will do to our industry.
In other words, we must do things efficiently to benefit the community,
and ourselves.
Assessment of sustainability and size of internal market
For our industry, sustainability is the capacity to endure over time providing long-term jobs, industrial
output of standard quality, and renewable resources to sustain growth and
stability. For humans, sustainability is
the long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has environmental, economic,
and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship, the
responsible management of resource use. We
don't go into a region to exploit it, but to create industry, economy, and social
development. The size of the market is
the greatest index of sustainability.
Assessment of region's stance in world commerce and trade information
The region's connectivity to world commerce is mapped out by its
capacity to trade. At the center of this
paradigm is the concept of Globalization.
Globalization is an umbrella term and has many dimensions that relate to
every fields in economics and social development of a region. In order for a region to participate in
globalization, it must have strong pillars to sustain economics (related to
globalization in trade, money, corporations, banking, capital), political
(science, governance, wars, peace, intergovernmental organizations,
non-governmental organizations, and regimes), sociology (communities, conflict,
classes, nations, agreements), psychology (individuals as subjects and objects
of global action), anthropology (cultures overlapping, adapting, clashing,
merging), communications (information as knowledge and tools such as the
internet), and geography (everything, provided can be anchored in a determined
space).
The region must sustain these elements to support our industry.
Time-scale
This refers to how long it will take to implement the Averter™
industry into a region. Calendar time is
not the same as Business time scale.
Many make the mistake of setting dates to accomplish industrial business
goals, instead of allowing the necessary time for an industry to mature into a
business; where Calendar time equals to fractal behavior, and Business time
equals to sequential behavior. The
time-scale for an industry varies according to the complexity of the industry
itself. The time-scale then, will be the
timely co-integration of the efficiency of the industry and the market exchange
platform. The calendar of industrial
development can be set in calendar time, however; the variable to this calendar
will be: adjustment.
Viability of implementing a web-based business intelligence tool
Our business intelligence technology gives our business the
ability to track, understand, correct, and manage information within our
manufacturing facilities, and the other components of our diversified organization.
This is a valuable tool for me, and possess an strategic role in the way
we tap into the priceless data that will be stored in our operational
systems. In order for this system to
work properly, our organization must be able to fully benefit from a global,
stable, and ready-access cross-functional analysis of information. The standardization of a business intelligence
tool provides strong ROI by reducing purchase, implementation, distribution,
development, and training costs.
The target area must have a strong and scalable platform to
implement, manage, and develop a fully integrated web-based business intelligent
system.
Determination
When all factors above have been properly studied and analyzed,
and its scrutiny has yielded positive results, and these results provide room
for maneuvering, trial and error, and for the implementation of checks and
balances, a determination on if the target area is apposite for this project
can only then be made.
Preparation
Then, the stage of preparation will be the first business phase
for our technology to be implemented into the target area.
Reference
The Bellona Foundation is funding "The Sahara Forest
Project", a project betting to bring into being productive systems that
imitate nature and its efficiency. They
are attempting to create an ecosystem capable of producing electricity, food,
biofuel, water, and jobs.
They are planning to use two proven technologies: Seawater
Greenhouses, and Concentrated Solar Power.
Two technologies highly fragile, expensive to maintain, and hardly
transferable due to its level of technology.
The first run of these technologies will be in Aqaba,
Jordan; in a 20-hectar site plus a corridor to bring water from the Red
Sea. They estimate the cost of or about
US$25,000,000. This plan will start
being executed in 2012, to hopefully be operational by the end of 2015.
They also have started testing this system in Qatar with
hopes that they can implemented in the Sahara Desert within the next few
decades. Moreover, efforts are being
invested in a pilot plant of one-hectare in Doha, Qatar. However, this project does not resolve the
problem of badlands.
Some think that this is too much, too soon, too brittle, too
expensive. Time will tell if this
project is sustainable and economically productive, if the money doesn't run
out.
In the meantime, we can prove the feasibility of our tenet
through a Proof of Concept, we can establish the achievability of the project,
we can set standards, we can ascertain self-sufficiency, and provide a
solution; and all of this faster, cheaper, and more efficiently.
Conclusion
The concept of BioHumaNomics is a realistic,
tangible, and realizable enterprise that can come efficiently and successfully to
the rescue of a region in economic disarray, with deficient or non-existing of
industry, with a severe lack of economic opportunities, or with a
non-competitive agricultural resources.
This project can rescue a region without industry or hope, and catapult
it to progress, economic bonanza, industry sustainability, pecuniary
opportunities, and more important of all, will convey and deliver dignity
to he most precious gem of all: the Human Capital.
