A New Economic Blue Print

Do you want to plant 2 million acres of palm oil plants?

Or mine diamonds across those hunchback Hills?

Do you want to be the largest gemstone dealer in the world?

Or drill oil along the native's lands?

Do you want to exploit that coal in that basin or do you want the chromite and graphite in those hills or do you want to create a million acres of a new variety of wheat that thrives in zones that receive 600mm of rain annually?

Whatever it is you want, here is the blueprint to do that sustainably and without Ogoni Wars.

 

1) All land, anywhere on earth belongs to three classes:

a) It is Private land;

b) It is Communal (tribal) land; or

c) It is Public land – held by governments and governmental bodies in trust for the citizens.

There is nothing like free unclaimed land anywhere. All land that you see has an owner.

2) All the wealth, on the land, in the land and above the land belongs to the owner(s) of the land.

This is natural, a given and cannot be altered by any law, constitution, agreement or force.

3) The landowner is a cost and is paid a fixed known, easy to compute fee or a percentage for every unit that comes out of his land.

4) The landowner is a beneficial owner of his land and he gets a share of any profit that his land contributes in generating.

The landowner, without doubt, contributes both debt and equity through his land, simultaneously.

5) The economic rights of any land are owned by the landowner and cannot be taken, or appropriated by any other class of landowners.

a) Government land and the economic rights in its lands cannot be appropriated by communities or private entities.

b) And on the same footing neither can community land and its economic rights be appropriated by the other two classes.

c) And similarly, and more so, neither can the government nor the community can they appropriate any land or the economic rights of any land that belongs to a private entity.

d) Common good does not extend to the use of the economic right of land belonging to a private entity.

e) Common good can only be gotten through the taxation of the profits that accrue to the economic activity of the land. For example rental tax.

No class has any business in land that does not belong to itself.

6) The land at all times belongs to the owner and he contributes only the economic rights accruing from any economic activity that his land is used for.

7) The function of governments is to ensure that landowners enter into open, transparent and enforceable economic agreements with any project developers - be it for oil, diamonds, or palm oil crops.

A New Paradigm

It is only through structuring projects, small and big, along the above principles that we can foster and ensure an equitable and sustainable future for all on earth. To do otherwise is to call calamity on one and all from one and all.

 With this paradigm - 

Avoid Ogoni Wars!

Avoid  Resource Curse!

Create more wealth than hitherto thought possible.