So what is a social tipping point as opposed to a natural tipping point?

Yeah, so any sufficiently complex system, either in the natural world or in the human social world, can potentially have a tipping point.

And basically it's a complex system and there are two alternative stable states.

So in social systems, you might have a sort of a nice, healthy, functioning society, but there is, for various reasons, maybe some social upheavals or something.

difficulties and tensions and then there's a possibility that you could have you know a revolution or something and then you could say that there are um things that help that society to tip into a failed state that's one example so there's loads of other examples in in the social world uh So we study things like social movements, for example.

You look at Greta Thunberg, the Swedish young lady who decided one August in 2018 to skip school as a protest.

And she was on her own for a couple of weeks.

Could you give us some examples and the kind of issues that might be there stopping the progress?