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Wednesday 14 November 2018
The Guardian: The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us
Illustration: Ben Jennings
By George Monbiot, November 14 2018
Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer
tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse.
Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear
and gradual. But the Earth’s systems are highly complex, and complex
systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways. When these systems
interact (because the world’s atmosphere, oceans, land surface and
lifeforms do not sit placidly within the boxes that make study more
convenient), their reactions to change become highly unpredictable.
Small perturbations can ramify wildly. Tipping points are likely to
remain invisible until we have passed them. We could see changes of
state so abrupt and profound that no continuity can be safely assumed.
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