I agree with the use of emergency when desired outcome is people seeing the situation as urgent, but all this does is kick the can. At some (I feel like close)

I agree with the use of emergency when desired outcome is people seeing the situation as urgent, but all this does is kick the can. At some (I feel like close) future point, people will see “emergency” and equate it to “someone’s being cautious. This is possibly not a problem at all and therefore can be ignored.” What’s that old saying along the lines of “intentionally use more subtle language in your writing because it gives you room to be intense later.”?