# too little too late (closing)

*Ordinarily means:* what was offered was insufficient and came after the chance had passed

a parameter has drifted past a wall where a thing could be, and the work to move it back arrives after the window closed

- Computed level: L14 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: windows opening and closing  ·  Arena: temporal

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** self

**Novel properties:**
- emergent.window

## Examples
- Fukushima's seawall was raised to 15 meters in 2011, after the 14-meter wave breached it and flooded the reactors. *(engineering)*
- In 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy hours after the US government declined to lend $700 billion. *(economics)*
- The 2015 Paris Agreement set limits on emissions after atmospheric CO₂ had already surpassed 400 ppm. *(institutions)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-too-little-too-late.closing*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-too-little-too-late.closing.json*  
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