[noduerme]

Suppose you want to graph negative responses to a survey over time. Let's say the business had been getting increasingly worse on all metrics over time.

Grouped by day you might just see a couple huge spikes on days where there were a few negative responses.

Grouped by year you'd notice that the volume of negative feedbacks was increasing.

Grouped by milllenia it would be hard to notice that something had changed radically in the last few years.

The question is what timeframe matters to your particular case. Unless you can answer that, you can't form a specific idea of how bad something actually is or whether it's begun improving or is still deteriorating.

The worst atmospheric polluting parts of the industrial revolution will have been over for most countries for a century before we really feel the environmental consequences of rising sea levels and increased greenhouse effects. No one alive today was burning coal in 1895. So it's not crazy to think about how we adapt, while still considering how to stop adding to the damage.

[1oooqooq]

you will be detecting micro plastic with every single fossil for millennia to come.

[noduerme]

Yeah, but a few thousand years is nothing.