Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis
Autor Tim Lenton OBEen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 sep 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198875789
ISBN-10: 0198875789
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 30 figures
Dimensiuni: 159 x 241 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198875789
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 30 figures
Dimensiuni: 159 x 241 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
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.
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.
Planetary tipping points threaten. Technological and social tipping points hold the promise. Time to focus!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Positive Tipping Points] will leave the reader at least assured that a pathway out of the environmental crisis exists.
[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.
Lenton is after the positives in this excellent exploration of the possible.
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.
Planetary tipping points threaten. Technological and social tipping points hold the promise. Time to focus!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Positive Tipping Points] will leave the reader at least assured that a pathway out of the environmental crisis exists.
[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.
Lenton is after the positives in this excellent exploration of the possible.
Notă biografică
Professor Tim Lenton OBE is Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, where he founded the Global Systems Institute. His research focuses on understanding how life has transformed the Earth system over the past 4 billion years, and how humans are transforming it now. He uses computer models to simulate the climate and biogeochemical cycles. Tim is renowned for his work in identifying climate tipping points, which informed the setting of the 'well below 2°C' climate target. He is passionate about the opportunities for positive tipping points in human activities to accelerate action towards global sustainability.