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Four positive tipping points that could trigger unstoppable change

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.positive.news/society/four-positive-tipping-points-that-could-trigger-unstoppable-change/

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📢 OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025

In this new report, we provide a check on the status of critical Earth system #TippingPoints and opportunities in #PositiveTippingPoints across sectors.

➡️ Full report: https://global-tipping-points.org

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Doom, defeat, and despair will get us nowhere in an environmental catastrophe, and yet all too often the negative news drowns out the positive.

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"Crossing Earth system #TippingPoints would have “catastrophic” impacts on societies, with the potential to “escalate violent conflicts, mass displacement and financial instability”, the report also warns.

The authors say that promoting “positive social tipping points” in socio-behavioural, technological, economic and political systems is “the only realistic systemic risk governance option” to limit the risks.

Many #PositiveTippingPoints have already been crossed"

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-climate-tipping-points-have-put-earth-on-disastrous-trajectory-says-new-report/

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report - Carbon Brief

The Earth is on a “disastrous trajectory” with “no adequate global governance” to deal with climate tipping points, warns a major new report.

Carbon Brief
BoudOct 30, 2022

"Operationalising #PositiveTippingPoints towards #GlobalSustainability", Lenton+2022 [1] makes the very interesting point that not only do there exist likely tipping points that are expected to make the #ClimateEmergency worse, but our social-civilisational system also has tipping points that can make things *better*!

Don't worry about the #jargonalisationismistical first word of the title - remove it and the meaning will be clearer :).

[1] DOI:10.1017/sus.2021.30, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/operationalising-positive-tipping-points-towards-global-sustainability/8E318C85A8E462AEC26913EC43FE60B1