Positive Tipping Points

Name: Positive Tipping Points : How to Fix the Climate Crisis
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How to Fix the Climate Crisis

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«Anyone who cares about the future should read this book. Understanding the negative tipping points in the earth system, just how quickly and how devastatingly our climate might change, should spur all to action. Tim Lenton's major contribution here is to show that we have the collective ingenuity to trigger positive tipping points where innovation drives technology, policy, and financial change to ramp up the deployment of solutions at breathtaking speed. This important book explains why we should all be afraid of how badly we might mess up the future and at the same time how we should have faith in ourselves to generate and implement solutions at scale-it is up to us which of these forces will prevail.»
Nigel Topping, Co-founder Ambition Loop, UN Climate Champion COP26

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We can all play a part in triggering positive tipping points that accelerate us out of the climate crisis.How do we get out of a climate crisis of our own making? As global change escalates, we are already starting to experience damaging tipping points in the social, ecological and climate systems that we depend upon - and much worse is to come. These shocks tell us we have left it too late for incremental change to save us: we need to change course fast to avoid the worst, yet we are acting far too slowly. Our supposed leaders appear paralysed by the complexity of the situation or, worse still, determined to maintain the status quo. This is leading to increasing despair, especially among young people. At the same time, hopeful signs of change are also growing fast. The climate movement, the spread of electric vehicles, and the rise of renewable energy are all examples of change accelerating in the right direction. They have all passed tipping points where their uptake becomes self-propelling, taking the status quo by surprise - and they are spreading worldwide. To get ourselves out of trouble in time, we need more of these positive tipping points towards global sustainability, which eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, reverse the destruction of nature, and promote social justice. This book identifies the positive tipping points that can help us avoid the worst from damaging tipping points. It takes the reader on a journey through understanding how tipping points happen, showing how tipping points have transformed human societies in the past, and facing up to the profound risks that climate tipping points pose to us all now. Then, it offers hope and empowerment in a series of uplifting examples of social and technological changes that started small but are already spreading rapidly to transform our societies to a more sustainable state. It identifies the positive tipping points that are still needed, the forces that are opposing them, and the actions that can trigger them, showing how we can all play a part in triggering positive tipping points that accelerate us out of the climate crisis.

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Forlag: Oxford University Press
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9780198875789
Utgivelsesår: 2025
Format: 24 x 16 cm

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«Anyone who cares about the future should read this book. Understanding the negative tipping points in the earth system, just how quickly and how devastatingly our climate might change, should spur all to action. Tim Lenton's major contribution here is to show that we have the collective ingenuity to trigger positive tipping points where innovation drives technology, policy, and financial change to ramp up the deployment of solutions at breathtaking speed. This important book explains why we should all be afraid of how badly we might mess up the future and at the same time how we should have faith in ourselves to generate and implement solutions at scale-it is up to us which of these forces will prevail.»
Nigel Topping, Co-founder Ambition Loop, UN Climate Champion COP26

«Tipping points are the essence of what is dangerous in climate change, and of what is hopeful and possible in economic change. Tim Lenton realised their importance long before most people, and this is the book to read if you want to understand them better.»
Simon Sharpe, author of Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Clima

«Planetary tipping points threaten. Technological and social tipping points hold the promise. Time to focus!»
Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change Convention

«We live in turbulent times where a big world dictates outcomes on a small planet. Nothing is linear or incremental anymore. Tim Lenton presents the most authoritative effort so far in confronting us humans with this reality. Things can go badly, permanently and fast, things can go well, very fast and at scale. Read this book to calibrate yourself for the stormy times ahead.»
Johan Rockström, Professor Earth system science, University of Potsdam, Director of the Potsdam Inst

«Positive Tipping Points by Tim Lenton is a compelling exploration of Earth's fragile systems, blending cutting-edge science with urgent storytelling. Essential for anyone seeking to understand and navigate our planet's climate challenges.»
Tom Rivett-Carnac, Founding Partner, Global Optimism

«This is the most enjoyable book ever written on the impending climate catastrophe. Sounds paradoxical, but Lenton provides, in a perfectly readable and even entertaining way, compelling evidence that our familiar world must eventually collapse on the current sociopolitical trajectory. At the same time, he identifies the best of all hopes for rapidly exiting that trajectory. Tipping dynamics, a notion I helped to introduce into climate science several decades ago, is key in both respects: positive nonlinear processes compete with negative ones in the battle for planet Earth. Lenton's wonderful essay may be just the gentle tip we need for winning that fight.»
John Schellnhuber, Director General, IIASA, Founder and Shareholder, Bauhaus Erde

«[Tim Lenton's] engaging and thought-provoking discussion of how individuals can bring about positive tipping points ... is a breath of fresh air at a time when people are increasingly prone to feelings of 'climate doom', the idea that a climate catastrophe is unavoidable.»
Michael Jakob, Nature

«Tim Lenton points to emerging signs of hope and positive shifts that could be steering us towards a better future. The result is both optimistic and encouraging.»
Livia Giannotti, Spear's Magazine

«Tim Lenton's] argument is needed at a time when it is easy to think that nothing is happening to dent the world's hunger for fossil fuels. ... [Positive Tipping Points is] a reminder that we are also capable, at times, of acting in ways that promise to make both us and the Earth flourish.»
Pilita Clark, Financial Times

«[Positive Tipping Points] will leave the reader at least assured that a pathway out of the environmental crisis exists.»
Pádraic Fogarty, Irish Times

«This is a tour de force: a magnificent exploration of what could be the most important issues of all. I beg you to read it.»
George Monbiot, author, journalist, environmental activist

«We could feel despondent and hopeless given the negative tipping points that climate change is crossing. Or instead, we could fight fire with fire, recognizing that there are positive tipping points just as there are negative ones. Consider, for example, the exponential uptake of EVs and the declines in costs for solar PV. So how does some change become nonlinear? That is what this important book shows us.»
Sir Andrew Steer, KCMG, PhD, President and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund.