LYRICS
All it takes
Is a few snowflakes
As man makes
The proverbial snowball
(Snowball ball)
You know “Domino”
Watch ’em fall
Go, go, go
Take your chance
In an avalanche
Woah, woe, ohhh
Get to know
The force of flow
Domino, oh, Domino, oh, oh
The more man makes
The less it takes
For goodness sake
The proverbial snowball
(Snowball ball)
You know “Domino”
Watch ’em fall
Go, go, go
Take your chance
In an avalanche
Woah, woe, ohhh
Get to know
The force of flow
Domino, oh, Domino, oh, oh
- Domino-and-the-Proverbial-Snowball-Part-I.mp4 (Video)
- Domino-and-the-Proverbial-Snowball-Part-I.mp3
- Domino-and-the-Proverbial-Snowball-Part-II.mp3
- Domino-and-the-Proverbial-Snowball-Part-II-Instrumental.mp3
- Domino-and-the-Proverbial-Snowball-Part-II.MID
Chords: C# slide to D# F# / F# slide to C# F# / B F#; Part II 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
What Are Tipping Points?
Push a glass toward the edge of a table and eventually it will fall off on its own. No matter how slowly or meticulously you push… no matter how you weight or fill the glass, it will reach a tipping point and fall off before being pushed completely off the table. No matter whether you believe the glass is half-empty or half-full, when the tipping point is reached it will plummet out-of-control to its end. This is science not fate, faith, nor belief. Human induced climate change has resulted in environmental tipping points being breached.
Tipping points are Critical Milestones that directly impact the rate of acceleration in climate change by multiplying the number and intensity of feedback loops. Tipping points, when crossed, trigger self-sustaining feedback loops that are no longer dependent on human activity. Similar to when a domino topples over hitting two more dominoes that in turn fall hitting more dominoes. Thus, the name The Domino Effect. It can also be visualized as The Snowball Effect. A tipping point is like a snowball rolling down a hill growing in mass and velocity (momentum). When a tipping point is crossed, it results in cumulative and reinforced global warming.
Triggering these tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released without the assistance of humans. Though we do not know how much carbon is stored in nature, it would be reasonable to assume that the temperature could be pushed from 3 degrees to 6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Humans cannot thrive above a rise of 1.5 degrees. Humans cannot survive if the temperature rises 6 degrees. For the first time in human history, global warming is going to continue no matter what humans do. Even if humans stopped their greenhouse gas emissions today, humans have invoked nature’s greenhouse gas emissions. However, the sooner humans stop their emissions, the slower and less severe the onset of extinction will be. In addition, humans must adapt their habitat to remove, reduce, and hinder nature’s greenhouse gas emissions if they hope to avoid extinction.
— from Toppled Tipping Points: The Domino Effect / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)