Residents and businesses will pay price for inaction

Slowly. Silently. The sea lettuce crisis began in 1995, writes Tony Lowes

THE Tipping Point: Courtmacsherry, Timoleague and the sea lettuce. A tipping point is the scientific point when one stable state becomes a new and irreversible stable state — a threshold beyond which there is no turning back.

It also refers to a certain point when a process — say climate change or the spread of an invasive species — results in a large and sudden changes of the behaviour of a system.