Many climate initiatives seek to slash carbon emissions. But others pursue ways to mitigate climate change by restoring local vegetation and reinforcing natural water cycles.
Rob de Laet, an entrepreneur in Brazil, is working to cool the atmosphere, improve biodiversity, and reinforce natural water cycles. His company is building a software app that will enable local people around the world to earn money through forest protection, reforestation, and agroforestry.
Agroforestry applies land-use practices to grow trees or shrubs among crops or pastureland. The trees produce local income through a wide range of marketable products—including medicines, wood products, fruits and nuts, and more.
Reduction of carbon emissions is important, de Laet says. But so is protection of the “atmospheric rivers” of water vapor that moderate temperatures and generate rainfall around the world.
Mentioned in the episode:
*Rob de Laet: robdelaet@yahoo.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/robdelaet/
*Amazon Investor Coalition: https://amazoninvestor.org/
*The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows https://bookshop.org/books/the-limits-to-growth-the-30-year-update/9781931498586
*What Is Consciousness? by Ervin Laszlo Ph. D., Jean Houston, and Larry Dossey MD https://bookshop.org/books/what-is-consciousness-three-sages-look-behind-the-veil/9781590793473
*Antonio Nobre and the biotic pump https://believe.earth/en/antonio-nobre-a-scientist-advocates-for-the-amazon/
*Water vapor and atmospheric rivers simulation: https://youtu.be/n0mupl4FZsQ
*Daniel Pinchbeck http://www.pinchbeck.io/
*"Guboo" Ted Thomas https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA127621990&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=07294352&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ec37198df
*Desmond Tutu https://www.britannica.com/biography/Desmond-Tutu
*John D Liu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZjfYQL8jk&ab_channel=JohnDLiu
*Jamaica Stevens https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamaica-stevens-9b727233/
*Jack Kelly https://jack-kelly.com/
About The Guest
Rob de Laet is a deep thinker about Earth’s natural systems. He believes our current decade is the most consequential one in the history of humanity. Rob believes humans can mitigate climate change by reinforcing natural water cycles. The most effective way to do so, he says, is by learning to work with nature through responsible management of vegetation and biodiversity. Rob is co-founder of the World Climate School and is an ambassador of the European Climate Pact.
