Translating Gaia & Tipping Points into Practical Action (Tim Lenton)

Tim Lenton will talk about his collaborative work on Gaia with Jim Lovelock and Bruno Latour and how the ‘Critical Zones’ movement is creatively translating the new Gaia worldview. Within this he will address how his work on climate tipping points has inspired Extinction Rebellion and other activists, and how a narrative of ‘positive tipping points to avoid climate tipping points’ seems to work in empowering a diverse range of actors in the face of an otherwise demoralising climate and ecological crisis.

Tim Lenton is the founder of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. He has more than 25 years of research experience in studying the Earth as a system, and developing and using models to understand its behaviour. His books “Revolutions that made the Earth” (with Andrew Watson) and “Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction” have…