Quotes About Tipping points

Biodiversity decline can certainly be self-reinforcing, with inbuilt tipping points and deadlines: the Pike paper estimates that business-as-usual closes the 'window of opportunity to deal with pandemics' in 2041.

In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.

In the end, tipping points are a reaffirmation of a potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you: It may seem like an immovable, implacable place; it is not. With the slightest push, in just the right place, it can be tipped.

Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that.

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change (2007).

We should quit using phrases like 'turning points' and 'tipping points.' There's been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.

Source: Deep Shift – Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact, Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society, World Economic Forum, September 2015.

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