Tipping Points

The Hidden (Potentially Catastrophic) Risks Hard to Comprehend
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In the Tipping Points VCC, we are a Community of Practice aiming to improve the understanding of tipping points in the Earth system and humanity, find ways to avoid crossing negative tipping points and utilize positive tipping points for tackling major threats to the Earth's life-support system and all life on Earth. (Image below from https://global-tipping-points.org)

If you are worried about the many tipping points in the planetary system, the Earth's life-support system and our social systems, you may want to consider joining our CoP. We do need people like you!

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[Jun 28, 2025] We are crossing, or are close to crossing, too many Tipping Points:

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[Jun 04, 2026] ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: This is what the Global Justice Report published today makes very clear. Read the article by Jonathan Watts in the Guardian as an introduction. While this equal and habitable world is still possible, it is very unlikely that we will transition to this world as long as greedy and unethical billionaires supported by governments they own compete to be the first trillionaire. The report underlines that the fight for an equal and habitable world has to be a fight against a system that rewards extraction and depletion of all resources and requires infinitely growing consumption devouring the Earth's life-support system; a system designed to increase inequality and sustain the exploitation of almost all to serve the greed of a few!

[May 28, 2026] No King Day on June 14, 2026: The No Kings movement has announced a nationwide event on June 14, 2026, directly counter-programming the 80th birthday celebrations for Donald Trump and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout on the south lawn of the White House.