Letter

In response to Tipping, tipping, tipping... the dominoes fall

Climate tipping points

It seems our governments lack the moral courage to do what the sciences, both physical and economic, demand to stave off Julian Cribb’s spine-chilling list of imminent climate tipping points.

So, we, the people, must force the issue.

If we can activate some social tipping points, people pressure might still help us rapidly spread the technologies, behaviours, social norms and structural reorganisation we need to delay the physical tipping points.

If enough people start to demand, among other things, the removal of fossil fuel subsidies and divest from assets linked to fossil fuels, we may still move the mountains we need to to buy a little time.

Don’t just write to your MP. Social tipping needs visibility. Go and stand outside their office with a sign demanding better. Take friends.

Join Market Forces, a campaign to pester companies with the power to improve or destroy our lives.

We have agency. It’s time to use it.

— Lesley Walker from Naarm (Northcote)