They go further and point to, just as one example of their argument, the way in which population rise could lead to a phase change, a chaotic and of unknown outcome, rapid and irreversible change in our environment.

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Nassim Taleb also addresses regime change in chaotic systems in his book The Black Swan.

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The definition of a chaotic system I use is any system in which a tiny change in initial conditions can lead to a large change in results.

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Simply put, a chaotic system is one whose final state is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions: if you change the beginning a little, you change the end a lot.

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