Delayed reaction to distant ecological harm triggers irreversible feedback cycles.

Evidence

These vital lungs of the earth are falling victim to the ethic of nature as property for human exploitation. The massive deforestation will further fuel earth’s rising temperatures. Waiting until the effects of massive deforestation become locally aversive before taking action will most likely launch an out-of-control feedback cycle of progressive, irreversible ecological degradation. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2537

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2537
• XREF: connects to: Ecological systems flip catastrophically once crossed thresholds are reached. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 86; Thawing permafrost releases trapped greenhouse gases in a self-reinforcing feedback cycle