This song can serve as a teacher resource for middle school students when learning about tipping points. Follow/sing along with the lyrics below!
Lyrics (to the tune of Jingle Bells):
VERSE 1:
Imagine you’re playing Jenga, pulling block by block
Then the tower tumbles down and fills you up with shock!
Like that, a tipping point means an irreversible change
For once we go and set them off, our climate won’t be the same, oh!

CHORUS

Tipping points, tipping points
They mean irreversible change
Once we reach them, we can’t go back
Our planet won’t be the same

Tipping points, tipping points
We must not trigger them
If we do, then we’re in trouble
They will throw off Earth’s system

VERSE 2:
There are tipping points happening all over the globe
From Boreal Forests to permafrost to coral reefs we go
The Greenland Ice Sheet to the Amazon Rainforest
We must protect them from rising heat and now let’s sing the chorus, oh!

CHORUS

SHORT BREAK

VERSE 3:
Ice loss will accelerate and make the sea levels rise
We ruin Earth’s delicate cycles when temperatures get too high
Another tipping point will cause coral reefs to die
In order to save our planet from disasters, we must all try, oh!

CHORUS

VERSE 4:
As humans heat up Earth more, we risk hitting these ceilings
We must stop global warming now and let nature get to healing
We’ve already crossed some tipping points, which is not good news
But you can help to save this planet we can’t afford to lose, oh!

CHORUS