[aerohead]

Climate change's bad rap comes from the associated timescales witnessed.
It's already 'too fast' for some, and it's accelerating.
Extant atmospheric carbon dioxide will remain for 1,000-years.
Not only are we not removing it, we've done virtually nothing to halt its growth.
Plants and animals can't evolve fast enough to keep pace.
Their habitats are disappearing.
There's no 'place' to go.
Wealthy can attempt adaptation and relocation. At great cost.
Some estimate that every $1 not spent today on mitigation will cost us $6 in the long run. But 28.4-cents / capita /day, borrowed at zero % interest is clearly to 'too much' to spend. We'll just kick the can down the road, as we have since 1957, when we first learned we had a problem.
People being what people are, will no doubt be looking at a ton of cure, compared to the ounce of prevention.
Strange reality, no fiction could imagine.