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How positive tipping points may be the key to protecting tropical rainforests
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Research suggests that triggering positive tipping points through persuading enough people to change behaviour could be key to protecting tropical rainforests from deforestation, drawing parallels to how social movements caused the collapse of the fur industry in the 1980s.

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How positive tipping points may be the key to protecting tropical rainforests
Tarcisio Schnaider/Shutterstock The world’s tropical rainforests are edging towards collapse. But knowing how to stop deforestation isn’t enough to drive action. The challenge is aligning all the pieces of the puzzle to initiate substantial change. Now our research suggests the key is to persuade enough people to make the system tip in the right direction. In the mid-1980s, the British fur industry collapsed in less than a decade. Famous retail stores shut down their fur departments. Fur farming
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