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The Positive Climate Tipping Point We Don’t Talk About
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Typically, we read about climate tipping points with dread. Melting ice. Rising seas. Burning forests. They are the planet’s darkest and most frightening headlines, shouting that we are witnessing abrupt and irreversible damage. But another tipping point could be a harbinger for breakthrough, promise, and hope just as abrupt and irreversible as the crisis that propels it. If it happens, it will be built on a new urgency, on scalable action and young voices, and on true commitment to environmental justice and inclusion.