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Originally Posted by kirant
I'm honestly confused by the bolded. Shouldn't anything in reality occur "in real time"? I mean, our perception of time, which is to say real time, is the linear progression we experience. To go to non-real time would likely either be an odd physics application or a turn based existence in video games.
Does "in real time" mean "at a rate appreciable over the course of a lifetime" as your link appears to allude to?
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Beyond semantics, what is your point?
My point is that climate impacts far from being projected as decades away are now here and taking roost. As the article states Miami is going to pay $400 million in adaptation to climate change. The COSTS of climate change are here now which in the case of Miami could be in the trillions of dollars.
Why does this matter? Should we just be nihilistic about it? Well no we should learn from this. We've been deciding for the past 20 years that we didn't want to pay the costs of acting early to avoid the costs or dealing with the aftermath. And now here are dealing with the costs of it actually happening which will be orders of magnitude more expensive to adapt than had we chosen to mitigate 20 years ago. The kicker is though that we're still faced with this choice, do we pay now to avoid damage in 20 years?