There are millions of lakes on our planet. Many are quite large such as the Great Lakes in our country and Lake Victoria in Africa, but one-third of the world’s standing water is contained in lakes and ponds of 25 acres or less. Many of these lakes are found in remote, often mountainous areas with no inflow and outflow. Nevertheless, in most of these lakes there are fish.
A tipping point is a point in time when a small thing can make a big change happen. The term was popularized in sociology in recent decades, but really comes from physics where is refers to adding a small amount of weight to a balanced object causing it to topple over.