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Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points
Laura M. Pereira
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Ignacio Gianelli
Cross-disciplinary Research Center in Environmental Technologies (CRETUS), Department of Applied Economics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS), Cardenales, Bella Vista, Maldonado, Uruguay
Therezah Achieng
Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Diva Amon
SpeSeas, D'Abadie, Trinidad and Tobago
Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Sally Archibald
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Suchinta Arif
Integrated Fisheries Lab, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Azucena Castro
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Tapiwa Prosper Chimbadzwa
Wildlife Conservation Action, Harare, Zimbabwe
Kaera Coetzer
Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Tracy-Lynn Field
School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Odirilwe Selomane
Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Nadia Sitas
Climate and Development Knowledge Network, SouthSouth North, Cape Town, South Africa
Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Nicola Stevens
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Sebastian Villasante
Cross-disciplinary Research Center in Environmental Technologies (CRETUS), Department of Applied Economics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Mohammed Armani
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
Duncan M. Kimuyu
Department of Natural Resources, Karatina University, Karatina, Kenya
Ibukun J. Adewumi
Australia National Center for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Sustainable Development Reform Hub, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
David M. Lapola
Center for Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture (CEPAGRI), University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
David Obura
CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya
Patricia Pinho
Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Brasilia, Brazil
Felipe Roa-Clavijo
Escuela de Gobierno, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Juan Rocha
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
U. Rashid Sumaila
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Short summary
Narratives around tipping points, such as the need for
positivetipping points in energy transitions to avoid
negativeEarth system tipping points, do not take into account the entire spectrum of impacts the proposed interventions could have or still rely on narratives that maintain current unsustainable behaviours and marginalize many people. We unpack these ideas in the context of what they mean for the concept of tipping points, using a critical decolonial view from the Global South.
Narratives around tipping points, such as the need for
positivetipping points in energy...
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