Парадигма «экология, здравоохранение и экономика» как синергетическое глобальное влияние на права человека

Óниверситет сельскохозяйственных наук и ветеринарной медицины, Êлуш-Íапока, Ðумыния

The public health, ecological system and the global economics being intimately interconnected undergo a cycle of crises that I take the freedom to call it “The Bermuda Triangle of Human Endeavors”. Planet Earth offers us the means to support our very existence. Health and Ecology together are the main life supporting elements that form the structure of a sustainable social and economic development. Deprivation of proper living conditions represents an acute denial of Human Rights. The economic principles need to be brought up to date and restructured such as to observe the non-monetary values going beyond Human Rights. The monetary system to be sustainable needs to convert its reference from gold to Life Equivalent Etalons (LEE); international stability would be insured.

Здоровье населения, экосистемы и глобальная экономика тесно взаимосвязаны, проходя цикл кризисов, которые я бы назвал "Бермудским треугольником человеческой деятельности". Планета Земля дает нам средства к существованию. Здравоохранение и экология совместно являются основными составляющими жизнеобеспечения и образуют структуру устойчивого социально-экономического развития. Лишение достойного уровня жизни – острый отказ в правах человека. Экономические принципы должны быть реструктуризированы таким образом, чтобы нематериальные ценности были ведущими в оценке соблюдения прав человека. Денежно-кредитная система для сохранения устойчивости и международной стабильности, должна изменить свои оценочные критерии с золотого эквивалента на Эталон Эквивалента Жизни.

HCTC and the apparent economy – Slowly but surely we are witnessing Human Civilization’s Total Collapse (HCTC) following the same pattern as the great civilizations of mankind [9]. Our planet’s life support needs to be protected and immediate steps needs to be taken; an international wide spread commitment would benefit humanity and its life support.

Nature itself works following the natural economy laws, matter-energy going thru entropic transformations, offering our basic life support including the conditions to extensively produce the necessary food and housing, trading commodities the Global economics are based on. There are a variety of participating qualitative factors in this equation. Weather conditions may lower the supply of agro-products raising the prices as a result, or the anticipations of the traders may conduct to anticipated price adjustments [2], just mentioning a few.

Price adjustment is a strategically design method to control the market; it works more under commend from the financially involved parties in attempt to keep the balance in their favor increasing profits. The Consumer Society is often viewed as the heart bit of economics. The demand and supply factors are being strictly correlated, respecting the market oriented economy basic rules.

Great scientific discoveries are embedded in the history of mankind. Product developments, manufacturing and supplying the market’s demand offered many business oriented members of our society the means for wealth accumulation. From the financial and real property holdings aspect to protected intellectual properties all the way to political powers, the mankind competes in achievements. Definitely a treasury of knowledge has been accumulated by trial and error. Are all of those elements rewarding to Humanity? Or maybe they are apparently rewarding just a few of us while the majority will collect the remains if anything is left. I would like to stress the term “apparently rewarding”.

Do all humans have equal rights at the time of birth, or we are guilty for our very existence? Are the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [11] adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nation on December 10, 1948 fully respected? Definitely they are not respected, as we all very well know. It should be our aim to encourage sustainable economical development while assuring for all people a decent and humanly so called “quality of life”. Minimum living standards can be established while the States and Governments can adapt and assure the implementation of such standards.

Model within Model – The Ecological System it’s a living entity where all life forms synergistically contribute to what we call Earth’s Life Support. Living organisms are characterized by high degree of organization. The ecological system can be described as an integrative level [6] of organization allowing us to describe the evolution “from inanimate to the animate and social worlds” as mentioned by Novikoff, 1945 [5]. Organisms are units that form populations. Furthermore, populations with their diversity form biospheres building up greater levels of complexity [5].

Humanity with its social organization governed by sets of laws, rules and policies, spoken or unspoken, written or not, often just implied and widely open to interpretations it forms a higher degree of interactive level with unique emergent properties of each unit that combined forms what we call “humanity”. Novikoff in his 1945 published works mentioned: "...living substance must still be recognized as matter on a higher level, with new, unique properties which have emerged on combination of the lower-level units” [6]. Schneirla, cited by Novikoff (1945), relates the results of his studies on army-ant and the ant population as colony underlining: "Any social organization represents a qualitatively new emergent level not equivalent to that which might be attained through a mere summation of the properties of its constituent individuals" [6].

Here is to observe, as a specific example, the outstanding intellectual abilities of each member of our society being further amplified by the synergistic effect of human mind's activity that overpasses the summation of our individual mental abilities. Such a superior level can regulate each body’s attributes, act constructively or destructively upon each constitutive inferior levels of organization including selective elimination or selectively limiting the participatory attributes and influence of the constitutive bodies to the whole superior level. Such selection often it fails the regulation process expressed often in the denial of the fundamental Human Rights or the achievement of equilibrium thru quality education due to the formation of influential conglomerates of interest, being financial power often mirrored into political power as well. It is common to observe the expansion of financial interests being painted by green projects, such “greenwash” being common in the political and corporate world pursuing variety of development projects [10].

Using as a complex living system example, the human body is often being invaded by other living organisms; therefore its sophisticated internal organization is being threatened by deadly bacteria, by viruses or by less organized entities (non living organisms) such as toxic chemicals or diverse type of radiations. In many situations variety of tumors can be developed taking over the human body, a shift of entropy from the host to the newly formed parasite invader (tumor). If the body’s immune system with its defeating mechanisms and actions are to fail, soon enough decay follows as an expression if decrease entropy in the system. Its may represent a learning opportunity for the human body to defeat itself. If the learning fails and resistance to change and adapt is heavily installed the path of the system’s entropy would decline.

Respecting the second law of thermodynamics that applies for the living systems as well, new parasitical entities are to gain energy out of the host exhaustion. At the higher level, the society as a living system following the same natural laws of thermodynamics and as a cumulus of organizational experiences, such parasitic newly formed life forms, socio-economical tumors and financial parasites are prone to be identified.

The history shows us the ability as well as the imperfections in our ways to organize and co-habit our planet sharing one common life support. Human endeavors can be viewed as an opportunity for knowledge and life experience acquisition. One of the major lessons humanity needs to learn is that the evolution process follows the laws of thermodynamics. Life form’s evolution and its organization indicate that material and energetic exchanges are tending to lower their entropy. From the socio-economic aspect, humanity as a super living organism, supposes to decrease its entropy as well while increasing the environment’s entropy in exchange. Such entropic matter-energy transformations must follow a trend as not to increase the environment’s entropy to the level of becoming a total useless waste beyond self-recovery point. Same above rules apply to the Global economics since they serve a living system as well, a system called Humanity.

Comparing with the other life forms it appears that humanity, in the material and energetic exchange process, invented and engaged an intermediary form of accountability and measurement, the monetary system. Soon enough, such a convenient and widely adopted system became a real industry were numbers are crunched, commodities are valued and traded, markets are being controlled, political powers are gained, international influence and disputes are reaching armed conflict levels. The monetary system is an invention that from my point of view is constantly misused and abused; it became more anti-human and brought more international distress then Alfred Nobel’s dynamite. As Graeme Smith, one of my corresponding collaborators on ResearchGate network [12], qualified “money as the major bullets of power", I have to mention majority of people would agree with such statement as I personally endorse it as well.

As opposed to other life forms where the material and energetic exchanges take place right on the spot maintaining a give and take equilibrium, humanity engaged in virtual values exchanges. Such trades most of the times are not on the spot and a cumulus of such virtual values, the monetary form, are instated. The equilibrium is lost, the consumption of real resources take place building up higher dues of virtual values due to added interest and furthermore due to inflation.

The creation of such financial facilitation eased access to real natural resources encouraging consumption, increased commodity trade, increased revenue. Increased consumption produces side effects of different nature such as public health (obesity and related problems, tobacco and alcohol related ailments), elevated carbon foot print and excessive potable water utilization.

It has been said that “one global financial regulator and one currency are not feasible”, as it was presented at the Conference held in New York City on November 24-25, 2008 by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee [7]. I strongly agree with such conclusion based on the actual conditions. Nevertheless, I am convinced that such measure it’s not just possible but rather ideal only if the respective currency will have as reference a Life Equivalent Etalon (LEE). Such approach will offer banks the opportunity to introduce real valuable incentives to private economic actors; it will discipline the market assuring stability [7]. Using a LEE for currency will increase pricing and overall financial stability, therefore reducing arbitrage incidences between countries.

The price stability has a profound Human Rights type impact reducing social distress, and possibly eliminating incidences such as suicidal [3]. Financial interests’ powerful influences on markets and governments pave the way for corruption.

I must take the opportunity to cite Georgescu-Roegen, a Romanian-born economist that put the basis of bioeconomics: “Policy recommendations of economists were doomed to failure unless they were based upon an understanding of the biophysical and social context of consumption and production” [4]. Georgescu-Roegen insisted that "descriptions of economic phenomena, especially mathematical descriptions, must go beyond relative market prices. They must be grounded in reality, that is, in the physical and social universe of which humans are embedded" [4].

Economic crises inflict huge losses as a domino effect, causing job losses, destroying industries, national bankruptcies paving the way for wars just about as the Great Depression added as motivation for the World War II. [8].

Didier Jambou, in our correspondence, puts an accent on the impact of economy upon Human Rights: "Material progresses are good if they improve human life, not if they destroy some life for the benefit of others" [12]. It is clear to me that expressed in one way or another, from sophisticated bank statements to huge capital investments, from luxurious automobiles and personal aircrafts, from countless number of servants to endless lawsuits, financial holders consume natural resources as if the Nature chose them over others from their birth time.

Nature has solutions for its survival – We are Nature. We may choose to observe two distinctive aspects of the Globalization process. The Natural Globalization needs to refer to the migration of species and its imposing character upon the rest of the environment conducting to mutual adaptations and evolution. The environment has no frontiers. The Human expansionism can be viewed also as being natural or as a forced globalization process; it is just a matter of reporting the events to the time factor. One World Government may appear as a viable solution to solve Global problems as to manage resources wisely, but in the same time it is a very dangerous solution as it appears to me Humanity is not mature enough for such step. Mankind comports as being vulnerable to corruption as of yet, therefore instauration of dictatorial practices can rise. One Global currency is still feasible but in order to have stability it needs to give up the inert gold as reference. A sustainable currency is ought having as reference a LEE.

A relationship between the natural economics, our Life support and Humanity is on the works as to present a viable solution to the Global crises, a proposal to assure World stability, sustainable development while respecting the Human Rights.

Education starts from home as a main Human Rights obligation towards children. It is an obligation imperatively attributed to be respected by parents first of all, part of a process to be continued by qualified institutions such as schools and universities. A wise natural resource s management, including human resources, depends directly on the quality and the degree of education. The human mind and its decisions, up to now proved to be the most polluting aggregate of all [9].

Marx referred to fertility as being altered by human intervention [1], but now in the 3-rd millennium, I will allow myself to comment on it. On one hand, the lack of intervention hinders the qualitative “fertility” of the “Human civilization”, the overall Life’s quality and social development. On the other hand, too much intervention definitely compromises said fertility conducting to an overloading of the system with suffocation effects if I may, therefore we are ought to follow the models that nature thought us by trial and errors in the course of our history.

It is about time to learn from our historical mistakes and adopt the Sustainable Equilibrium of Life so we can enjoy our time and transmit the enjoyment to others along with the same opportunity we can start to create now for ourselves. The HCTC can be prevented. The most valuable capital investments humanity builds are not the material or the monetary means nor statues and monuments but rather the non-monetary values such as a sustainable Life support of our planet managed by the capital of knowledge with love and respect to our Mother Nature. We owe it to our children after all. We owe it to ourselves if we have respect.