 Although dynamic choice problems are often presented with the help of fanciful thought experiments, their interest is not strictly theoretical. As this section highlights, they can wreak havoc in our real lives, supporting phenomena such as self-destructive addictive behavior and dangerous environmental destruction. In some cases, these phenomena can be understood in terms of procrastination (Andreou 2007), which seems to be, by its very nature, a dynamic choice problem (Stroud 2010).