The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn´t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn´t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.