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Join us this Friday, for a dynamic discussion with
Dutch author Rob de Laet
October 24th at 1 PM EDT (New York)
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Rob de Laet is coauthor - with Peter Bunyard - of the book ‘Cooling the Climate - How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years, and is project lead of the Cooling the Climate project, in Araribóia, Brazil, which aims to empower the indigenous Guajajara people to regenerate their territory, which has been severely degraded by fire, logging, and land invasion. Supported by Indigenous leadership, cutting-edge technology, and innovative financing, the project hopes to not only restore the forest by planting 16 million trees on 8,000 hectares but lift 15,000 people out of poverty through direct employment.
In their book, De Laet and Bunyard make the case that to address the climate crisis, we must transform our social and economic approaches, while gaining a much more holistic understanding of climate
The book and project both draw on James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory and Indigenous cosmologies, positing that Earth functions as a living organism, with ecosystems maintaining life-supporting conditions.
Rob is a world traveler, serial-entrepreneur, philosopher, and climate activist. He built an international ecotourism company with partnerships in seventeen countries, and is currently working to rewild a damaged part of the Brazilian rainforest and avert the dieback of the Amazon Rainforest by strengthening the biotic pump over the area.
Join us for an exciting mini workshop exploring these ideas and their practical application.
It's also possible that Peter Bunyard may be able to jump into the workshop at the last minute! Fingers crossed.
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“The new and yet ancient paradigm, of our being wholly dependent on the well-being of the natural world, necessitates an understanding of the biosphere as a vast interconnected web of life, which has come into being by means of its evolutionary and genetic connections to the past. In this world view all living organisms are intricately linked and mutually dependent. This perspective is grounded in a holistic and eco-centric understanding of the world, contrasting sharply with the human-centered and Cartesian rationalist worldview that has been prevalent in Western thought for centuries and which must now be radically modified."
--From Rob de Laet and Peter Bunyard's book: Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years
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Stay cool, stay safe, stay regenerative,
Love,
Didi
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