We have followed with great interest the responses to our article in Dialogues on Climate Change concerning societal tipping points in public debate, as well as the reflections offered on their relationship to climate tipping points and their implications for society. In this response, we underscore the strengths of the four responses our article received and critically assess whether early opportunity signals can be applied to transformations in social systems, and whether such systems can be modelled in ways analogous to physical climate systems. Finally, we outline potential directions for future research on societal tipping points.
Hansson et al. (Mon,) studied this question.