We are currently in a slow-motion traffic accident of our own making that we are only just starting to notice the effects of. But the "accident" has
already happened, the rest is now just the physics playing out.
Some people have been saying as loudly as they can "watch out". They haven't been crying wolf, it's just a very slow wolf, but it's teeth are sharp.
> The ice caps still exist, half the world's countries aren't underwater
Is your understanding of climate collapse is limited to the one issue, the melting of the ice-caps, and concomitant sea-level rises?
That's a narrow view that doesn't remotely cover the complexity and scale of the problem. However, addressing that one, single issue:
> Arctic sea ice area (SIA) has been declining rapidly throughout the year during recent decades with a steeper decline since 2000
> Our observationally-constrained projections based on attribution results also suggest that we may experience an unprecedented ice-free Arctic climate in the next decade or two, irrespective of emission scenarios. This would affect human society and the ecosystem both within and outside the Arctic, through changing Arctic marine activities as well as further accelerating the Arctic warming and thereby altering Arctic carbon cycling.[1]
(emphasis mine)
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38511-8
But as I said, it's a bigger problem than the polar ice melting. It's about the ocean absorbing CO2 and acidifying, inhibiting the growth of the shells of molluscs that live there; it's about over-fishing; it's about coral bleaching; it's about the ocean temperature spiking; the jet-stream; ecosystem encroachment; 200 species a day going extinct -- we're on day 189 of this year, so that's ... 37,800 since January 1st; it's about the increase rate of catastrophic fires.
Even if it "feels" relatively normal today, it's just the water temperature rising so slowly the lobster doesn't realise it's being cooked ...
And you seem to be worried about paying taxes...?