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377 Rob de Laet - Water is key to cool the planet within 20 years

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A conversation with Rob de Laet, project lead of Cooling the Climate and co-author of the book Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years. The science is pretty clear and getting clearer by the day: water cools the planet. The more living, healthy vegetation we have on this planet, predominately perennials and thus trees, agroforestry systems and healthy forests, the cooler the climate is and the less extreme weather events occur. Living plants literally make the Earth sweat and remove heat from the biosphere.

Humans have systematically devegetated the planet as Judith D. Schwartz likes to say, and the ongoing climate weirding suggests we may have gone too far. Now we're seeing real calculations: how many square kilometres do we need to regenerate to lower the global temperature by just one degree?
If this is all becoming increasingly evident, why isn’t it common knowledge yet, especially in the headquarters of banks, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and governments?
This is the story of a successful entrepreneur getting drawn into water cycle restoration, planetary cooling and all the good stuff that comes with it. We share notes on why this movement, maybe the defining story of our time, hasn’t broken through yet and what we can do about it.

More about this episode.

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In Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast show we talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.

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Chapters

1. Introduction to Paul Clarke (00:00:00)

2. From Physics to Technology (00:08:14)

3. Entering the Food World at Ocado (00:18:03)

4. The Holy Trinity of Technologies (00:27:38)

5. Digital Twins Explained (00:40:35)

6. First-Hand Experience with Farming (00:49:09)

7. Systems Thinking for Agriculture (00:55:57)

8. Smart Machines and Climate Adaptation (01:02:46)

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A conversation with Rob de Laet, project lead of Cooling the Climate and co-author of the book Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years. The science is pretty clear and getting clearer by the day: water cools the planet. The more living, healthy vegetation we have on this planet, predominately perennials and thus trees, agroforestry systems and healthy forests, the cooler the climate is and the less extreme weather events occur. Living plants literally make the Earth sweat and remove heat from the biosphere.

Humans have systematically devegetated the planet as Judith D. Schwartz likes to say, and the ongoing climate weirding suggests we may have gone too far. Now we're seeing real calculations: how many square kilometres do we need to regenerate to lower the global temperature by just one degree?
If this is all becoming increasingly evident, why isn’t it common knowledge yet, especially in the headquarters of banks, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and governments?
This is the story of a successful entrepreneur getting drawn into water cycle restoration, planetary cooling and all the good stuff that comes with it. We share notes on why this movement, maybe the defining story of our time, hasn’t broken through yet and what we can do about it.

More about this episode.

==========================

In Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast show we talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.

==========================

👩🏻‍💻 YOUR OUR WEBSITE

📚 JOIN OUR VIDEO COURSE

💪🏻 SUPPORT OUR WORK

==========================

🎙 LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST AND SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL OR WATCH IT ON 📽️ our YouTube channel

==========================

FOLLOW US!

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Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!

LinkedIn

Contact page website

Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:
https://gen-re.land/

Discount code for €200 of: Investinginregenerativeagriculture

Fresh Ventures Studio online course Nov 2025

Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more here

Support the show

Feedback, ideas, suggestions?
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- Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com
Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P!
Support the show
Thanks for listening and sharing!

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Chapters

1. Introduction to Paul Clarke (00:00:00)

2. From Physics to Technology (00:08:14)

3. Entering the Food World at Ocado (00:18:03)

4. The Holy Trinity of Technologies (00:27:38)

5. Digital Twins Explained (00:40:35)

6. First-Hand Experience with Farming (00:49:09)

7. Systems Thinking for Agriculture (00:55:57)

8. Smart Machines and Climate Adaptation (01:02:46)

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