The article discusses the urgent need for accelerated climate action, highlighted by recent protests led by Just Stop Oil activists and the implications of research on the melting West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The author emphasizes the importance of reaching both environmental and social tipping points, asserting that while global climate shifts may be inevitable, societal changes require sustained activism and risk-taking. It underscores a discontent with the slow governmental response to climate crises, particularly as new scientific findings reveal rapid and irreversible ice melting that could lead to catastrophic sea-level rises.
Standing on a traffic island in London, I looked straight into his body-worn video camera, and hoped the speech would make it to the courtroom.
At least one glacier there has passed a tipping point, scientists have found, where its melting is rapid and irreversible.
By risking arrest as a law-abiding science journalist, I hoped to push society past a social tipping point to speed up climate action.
Researchers are unsure what it takes to cause social changes to also become rapid and irreversible.
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