UNIT 04, THE TIPPING POINT

The tipping point is the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important change, a good example of this can be the climate changes.

Imagine cutting down a tree. Initially, you chop and chop … but not much seems to change. What you do not know is that this practice is one of the causes for cima changes. Just because of this a lot river disappear and the ice from the antarctic is melting. You might think it is impossible that the simple action of cutting down a tree, well it is not that imposible because that is happening, because we, humans, are not cutting down just one three, we are cutting down a whole wood just to place a mall, and that is causing a lot terrible climate changes!

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