Luis A. Martin Del Campo

Regenerative entrepreneur, educator, sustainability consultant. Systems strategy, Climate Tech and becoming a better human.

[Luis A. Martin Del Campo @LMardelca]

@conagua_mx hola! No logro contactarles por teléfono ni email; me rebotan los correos. Me podrán ayudar? Es relacionado al tema del Monitor de sequías de México. Gracias!

[Governor Mikie Sherrill @GovSherrillNJ]

So much for a “meritocracy.”

Last night at the Pentagon, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth dismantled a core principle of American democracy: the apolitical military.

Let me explain what’s going on and why it is deeply dangerous for our country: 🧵

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: scientists know it's likely the Great Barrier Reef has already been dealt its death blow 🧵

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

When you are in the VERY concave phase, the only way out of trouble is:
1) a radical technical innovation,
or
2) a debasement of the currency to drown the debt.

Note: military adventurism is hurtful, but not the cause of the decline. It just comes WITH the decline.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Remember that the Palestinians are the historical indigenous to the soil, closest to the biblical figures.

[Luis A. Martin Del Campo @LMardelca]

Es importante publicar tus ideas y hallazgos.
Dejarlo encerrado en tu cajón por miedo a algo (fracaso, rechazo, o robo) hace que te quedes en la oscuridad y sin que tus ideas generen valor para nadie.

[Luis A. Martin Del Campo @LMardelca]

Notas e ideas mientras leo "You Belong to the Universe", de Jonathon Keats

[Luis A. Martin Del Campo @LMardelca]

4 - Ser necio (hasta cierto punto); confiando en tu visión, percepción e ideas (bien fundamentadas), frente a las normas y convenciones que no parecen hacer sentido. Solo así puedes proponer algo innovador.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The obscene behaviour of Israeli soldiers is not an aberration. The Israeli army is a colonial army, conducting a colonial war, and their behaviour is 100% consistent with that of Western colonial armies for the past 500 years. It's just that now it's on TikTok.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

What the present moment reveals, once again, is that Western aggression during the "Cold War" was never about destroying socialism, as such. It was about destroying movements and governments in the periphery that sought economic sovereignty. Why? Because economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core.

This remains the primary objective of Western aggression today. And it is the single greatest source of violence, war and instability in the world system.

The reason Western powers went after socialist movements across the global South during the "Cold War" (Cuba, China, the incineration of Vietnam and North Korea, etc) was because they knew socialism would enable the South to regain control over their own productive capacities - their labour and resources and factories - and organize them around local needs and national development.

When this happens - when people in the global South start producing and consuming for themselves - it means that those resources are no longer cheaply available to service consumption and accumulation in the core, thus disrupting the imperial arrangement on which Western capitalism has always relied (cheap labour, cheap resources, control over productive capacities, markets on tap). Remember, roughly 50% of all material consumption in the core is net-appropriated from the global South. This is what they are trying to defend.

But it wasn't only socialist governments that pursued economic sovereignty. After political decolonization, a wide range of movements and states across the South also sought economic liberation and sovereign industrial development. And Western powers attacked them with equal brutality (Indonesia, Brazil, Guatemala, the DRC...).

This is the key reason that Western powers supported the apartheid regime in South Africa, and it is why they support the Israeli regime today... as Western settler-colonial outposts that can be used to attack and destabilize regional movements seeking socialism or any form of real economic sovereignty, whether in Angola or Mozambique or Zimbabwe or any of the Arab nationalist or socialist movements in North Africa and the Middle East.

Iran has always been central to this story. Western states orchestrated a coup against the extremely popular prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. He was a left-leaning nationalist, not a socialist. But he wanted Iran to have control over its own resources (notably, oil), and for the US and Britain this was unacceptable. Mossadegh was replaced by a brutal Western-backed dictatorship. The revolution that finally overthrew the dictatorship in 1979 - and constituted the current government - wasn't even left-leaning, much less socialist. But they want national economic self-determination and that is sin enough. They are a target for the exact same reasons that Iraq and Libya were targets.

The same goes for China. China's path toward sovereign industrialization - whether socialist or not - means that it is no longer an easy source of cheap labour for Western capital. And as the supply price increases so too does the sabre-rattling from Western states and media.

So this is the situation we are in. The Western ruling classes are backing obscene violence and plausible genocide in Gaza, against overwhelming international condemnation, because they must shore up their regional outpost at virtually any cost. The vast majority of the world supports Palestinian liberation, but Palestinian liberation would constrain Israeli power and open the way to regional liberation movements, and this is strongly antithetical to the interests of Western capital. And now they are provoking war with Iran, risking regional conflagration, while at the same time encircling China with military bases, ramping up sanctions on Cuba, trying to contain progressive governments in Latin America, threatening invasion of the Sahel states...

It is intolerable and it cannot continue. The violence they perpetrate, the instability, the constant wars against a long historical procession of peoples and movements in the global South who yearn for freedom and self-determination... the whole world is dragged into this horrifying nightmare. They are willing to inflict enormous suffering and misery on hundreds of millions of people in order to preserve existing dynamics of capital accumulation. We will not have peace until this arrangement is overcome and post-capitalist transformations are achieved.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Western governments are making it clear that they ultimately do not care about democracy, or liberty, or rights, or universalism, or international law. It’s just naked capital accumulation and imperialism all the way down. That's what they have to offer the world.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If someone told you only a few weeks ago that Iran would be at war, you would have guessed Israel, the US, or perhaps Saudi Arabia; not Pakistan.
It is very, very hard to keep in mind that we're not good at predicting & even harder to incorporate it into a general policy.

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

Your friendly reminder that ecological overshoot is the core predicament humanity is in... and that climate change is nothing more than a symptom of this systemic context.

https://t.co/0nH3EeLsRv

[0xG @0xg_eth]

@george__mack I highly recommend the book "Why Nations Fail" by Acemoglu and Robinson.

In short: A nation's political institutions form its economic institutions, which in turn create either inclusive or exclusive economic incentives. These incentives determine the prosperity of a nation.

[Carlos Brown @cabrowns]

Voy a fijar este tuit para todos los cñoros tuiteros que vienen a este perfil a defender multimillonarios.

[❤️ @umairh]

1/ Today we’re going to talk about the collapse of global democracy. Take a look at this chart; what does it show?

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, and fluidity of thought.