Sentence examples for beyond a tipping point from inspiring English sources

It has become known as 'gridlock' and is characteristic of a system pushed well beyond a tipping point.

Nevertheless, when places from the Mediterranean to the Isle of Skye all start complaining more or less simultaneously about the sheer pressure of tourist numbers in their streets and beauty spots, as has happened this August, it feels as if the always uneasy balance between the visited and the visitors has gone beyond a tipping point.

"The crisis is in its third year and the escalation has gone beyond a tipping point," said Clare Spurrell, an IDMC spokeswoman.

Everyone who is saying "Facebook will eventually die just like Myspace" simply doesn't understand Facebook and how it has already gone so far beyond a tipping point there is no turning back.

The negative association between SNAP and child hunger in this study is, we believe, indicative of households in receipt of SNAP benefits that commonly experience food insecurity and have thus largely moved beyond a tipping point for self-selection into SNAP participation.

If we burn all that oil and gas, the planet will warm beyond tipping points with catastrophic consequences.

Hansen: The scientific community is getting more and more concerned about the fact that we're pushing the system beyond tipping points and things are happening.

If he can continue the revolutionary spirit he has channeled his whole life and has instilled into his supporters through the convention and beyond, then a tipping point will be reached and the movement will become self-sustaining, no longer requiring a leader to push it forward.

We stand at the precipice of climatic tipping points beyond which a climate crash will be out of our control.

We also underestimated the potential importance of strong feedbacks, such as the thawing of the permafrost to release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as well as tipping points beyond which some changes in the climate may become effectively irreversible.

That is the likely threshold beyond which we will pass tipping points for the continued existence of human and most life on this planet.