Positive tipping points : how to fix the climate crisis / Tim Lenton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenton, Tim (Timothy), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change mitigation.

Social change.

Physical Description:

xii, 241 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm

monochrome

illustration

map

chart

Other Title:

How to fix the climate crisis

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"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"-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Contents

Figures

Part I URGENCY

1 Accelerating Change

2 Lean Back Gently

3 Past Tipping Points

4 On Thin Ice

5 Losing Our Niche

6 Averting Disaster

Part II TRANSFORMATION

7 Aunt Lilian

8 The Greta Effect

9 That A-ha Moment

10 A Quiet Revolution

11 Pedal to the Metal

12 Land Ahoy

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lenton, Tim (Timothy). Positive tipping points.

ISBN:

9780198875789

0198875789

OCLC:

1492039901

Publisher Number:

10.1093/oso/9780198875789.001.0001

CIPO000246430