“#Australia is sleepwalking into our #fiery future”.
…the 2020 recommendations of the #bushfire royal commission, which was called the #RoyalCommission into #NationalNaturalDisasterArrangements.
a “clarion call for change – across land-use planning, infrastructure, emergency management, social policy, agriculture, education, physical and mental health, community development, energy and the environment”.
Three years on, very little, if anything, has happened.” https://aus.social/@ApaulD/110924230554798617
“one million households are suffering “extreme #HomeInsurance affordability pressure”. A lot of those families are now uninsured.
If one uninsured family loses their house, they’re on their own; if 1000 families lose their houses, it’s the government’s problem.
#GlobalWarming plus #ElNino will mean floods in northern #Australia and fires in the south – permanently. Many thousands of the homes in the path of water and flames will be uninsured.”
“In 2019, Professor John Church from the #ClimateChange Research Centre at the University of #NewSouthWales noted that 230 million people worldwide live within one metre of high tide, most of them in #Asia and the #Pacific.
A lot of those people will want to come to Australia and stay once their homes go under, especially the two million or so who live on #PacificIslands that will disappear. “