«Geocratia proposes to establish a social contract with our planet»

A conversation with his ideologue

Álvaro de Regil Castilla and Laura G. Vales

On the occasion of the publication of his latest essay (2026), Geocratia, the paradigm that goes for the welfare of people and the planet and not the market, we wanted to talk to the Mexican author to explore his original political proposal.

Introductory biography
Álvaro de Regil Castilla is the executive director of the Jus Semper Global Alliance. This organisation has been promoting living wages as the basis of any sustainable and democratic society since 2003. He launched the Living Wages North andSouth (TLWNSI) initiative, an international benchmark in

denouncing unequal exchange through labour arbitration in global supply chains generated by corporate globalisation. He is also a founding member of the International Living Wage Observatory (OISAD) at La Salle University in Mexico City.

Since 2015, his work has centred on promoting the need to build the imaginary of a new paradigm for the well-being of people and planet in a truly democratic environment, free from capitalism. As part of this transformative concept, he works in the fields of labour rights, business and human rights, degrowth/steady-state economics, basic income, and the drastic reduction of humanity's environmental footprint as the only way to achieve the sustainability of life on our home planet, Earth.

Alvaro is also a contributor to the vision and transformative praxis of the Great Transition Initiative at the Tellus Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and a consultant on the underlying causes of immigration with several community organisations in California and with California Lutheran University.

Alvaro de Regil’s career took a radical turn when, in 1999, he turned to writing and working around social paradigms of true democracy, social justice and degrowth, a path that contrasts with his years in the heart of corporate capitalism, having worked for over twenty years in multinationals such as Ford, IBM and Univision and in his own direct marketing firm.

Starting concepts
Laura G. Vales: Five years have passed since you wrote the first version of Geocratia, a proposal that now has a much more forged structure. How would you summarise this paradigm for a citizenry that already perceives that the current system is in crisis, but does not know where to look?


For a full read of this essay, click here or on the picture to download the pdf file.