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Environment & Energy

rhett o rick

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3. We need to define "tipping point".

Reply to kestrel91316 (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 10:19 PM

Jul 2012

Here's a definition as I see it: The tipping point is the point in a movement that once passed, the reversing of the trend can not occur.

The point I think you are trying to make is that even if we did everything possible we couldnt stop the momentum passed the tipping point.

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