The following are recommended search links pertaining to "tipping points"
in evolving major threats to the integrity of Space-Ship-Earth.
Tipping points often entail some concentrated form of energy: physical, chemical, heat, potential, political, spiritual, religious, anger, resentment, anxiety, etc.
A long metal circular rod with flat ends standing on a horizontal flat surface, is a good example of a situation with a tipping point. It takes very little energy to tip it to the place where it starts to fall. As it progresses into its fall, it will take a fast-increasing-amount-of-energy to stop-the-fall. If the fall is dangerous and not noticed and caught soon, it may quickly become impossible to prevent the total-release-of the initially-stored-amount-of energy-in its initial-unstable-stand.
Modern environmental crises within Space-Ship-Earth involve other forms of stored energy which are unstable and may be "tipped" by humans who do not really understand how unstable-the-stored-energy-is; and do not understand the catestrophic results of starting a "tip" in ignorance; as with nuclear-weapons and global-warming.
You will find it useful to work with these search strings within the context of google.com and its Two-Windows via 2google.htm
125,000 tipping point global warming deep cold ocean water43,100 tipping point global warming deep cold ocean water CO2 removed
27,200 tipping point global warming greenland ice sheet melting moving
84,500 tipping point global warming gulf japanese current
92,200 tipping point global warming cold bottom ocean flows
92,300 tipping point global warming giant coastal cities
15,800 tipping point global warming coral reefs dying
26,800 tipping point global warming decay trees plants
24,700 tipping point global warming tropical forests destroyed
760 tipping point global warming frozen tundra methane
338 tipping point global warming airplane contrails night flights
192,000 tipping point nuclear winter following war
10,700 tipping point nuclear electromagnetic pulse destruction all electrical technologies
85 tipping point political dichotomy polarization alienation contentious negativism
397 tipping point violent alienation estragement destruction mental illness
11,700 tipping point violence creation alienated terrorists fanatic extremists
201 tipping point arrogant self righteous domineering religious leaders hubris
50 tipping point addicted codependent domineering religious leaders alienated
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