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proliferation of entrepreneurial drives to establish large-scale changes in the way products and
services are created, shipped, delivered, used, and re-circularized.
The global reality of the Sharing Economy is reflected in the diverse growth figures visually
captured in the series of slides above, by Benita Matofska, CEO of The People who Share, and
originator of Global Sharing Day. “Smart UK consumers who currently share are benefiting from
£4.6 billion worth of savings or earnings,” Matofska has said, and “[t]he sharing economy is the
people’s sustainable economy and is a good deal for everyone." 348
Causal connections between tipping events in the climate system, as identified by participants in an expert
elicitation. 349
348 Jennifer Elks (2013) New Research Finds UK Consumers Earning and Saving £4.6 Billion Through the Sharing
Economy, SustainableBrands.com, May 22, 2013,
http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/social_enterprise/new-research-finds-uk-consumersearning-and-saving-46-billion-throu?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=schtweets&utm_campaign=editorial
349 Lenton, Timothy M. and Hywel T.P. Williams (2012) On the origin of planetary-scale tipping points, Trends in
Ecology & Evolution July 2013, Vol. 28, No. 7. Map color explanations: “Causal connections between tipping
events in the climate system, as identified by participants in an expert elicitation. Tipping events (in yellow) are
connected A B if at least five experts judged that event A had a direct effect on the probability of event B
thereafter; the sign indicates increasing (+) or decreasing (–) effects, or effects of uncertain direction (+/–). A
predominance of positive causal connections could give rise to a ‘tipping cascade’, but this also depends on the
strength of the positive and negative connections. Here, there are more positive (red) than negative (green) and
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