According to a majority of environmental scientists, the global climate systems might be dangerously close to a collapse, "a tipping-point"; some argue that it already is a fact. The views differ on the magnitude and the character of it, and how close in time we are to see it unleash its full potential. Exactly what disruptions of the highly complicated and sophisticated global weather system that would trigger the actual collapse, is also a question of debate. The Paris Climate Conference (COP21), and the agreement reached, can be said to have that assumption as one of its cornerstones.

But there is also another "tipping point", one that is already well under way; and as so often when paradigmatic shifts do occur, we who live in the middle of the change, tend not to see "the wood for all the trees". I am referring to the fact that the public consciousness on global warming and other threats to the environment has seen a dramatic rise in the last five to ten years; a change that is gathering momentum worldwide.

Being a shift especially significant among younger people, it brings a promise that may set a base for political and economic decisions that implement, not only technical solutions and practices, that, to quite an extent is already at hand, but maybe as important, becomes a practical guide in everyday life for people all over the world. If so, we might have a fair chance to counter that first "tipping point", that, paradoxically speaking, the second one seems to be a glimmering reflection of; after all, the first one is also a creation of our minds.