Global Tipping Points: Negative Tipping Points
Professor Tim Lenton, Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, talks about how we are on the verge of triggering tipping points that could affect populations worldwide.
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- Production Year 2023
- Length 00:01:01
- Production Company Studio Silverback
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00:00:00 – 00:00:06 So, right now, we're stood at a cliff edge really, of starting to trigger\n00:00:06 – 00:00:07 tipping points in the climate\n00:00:07 – 00:00:10 that can harm hundreds of millions, if not billions of people\n00:00:10 – 00:00:16 and by harm, I mean fundamentally restricting our ability to grow food our supplies of water or the sea level rising and destroying our homes\n00:00:21 – 00:00:22 and some megacities\n00:00:22 – 00:00:25 So this is a matter of lives and livelihoods on the line\n00:00:27 – 00:00:31 We're talking about changing the climate fundamentally\n00:00:31 – 00:00:33 the pattern of the climate we're used to\n00:00:31 – 00:00:33 the shape or the face of the earth as we know it, where the coastlines are\n00:00:37 – 00:00:42 and the consequences are going to cascade through our human and social systems\n00:00:42 – 00:00:45 because these tipping point consequences\n00:00:45 – 00:00:49 are going to force the movement of some cities, many people\n00:00:49 – 00:00:53 they're going to fundamentally disrupt food and water supplies\n00:00:53 – 00:00:56 It's going to be about lives and livelihoods\n00:00:56 – 00:01:01 and would ultimately mean, well, reconceiving how we live on this planet
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