Hamilton believes his new research highlights a blind spot in the government’s response to climate change. When our leaders do address the climate crisis their focus is on mitigation – reducing greenhouse gas emissions to help slow global climate change. This is crucial, says Hamilton, but it ignores the fact that much warming is already locked in, and that Australia cannot protect itself with its own carbon pollution reductions.
“They are not talking about the change that is already coming down the highway,” he says. He believes the government should be making climate adaptation more central to the national debate. Absent government leadership, he says, some people – those with means and climate education – are beginning to adapt their own way.
We've done the same after being pushed out of Northern NSW, just as that finished, we hunkered down on the Gold Coast during covid (which was great sans tourists) and then tried NZ but house prices were worse then Australia, so ended up in Northern Tassie.
I do have to question the sanity of Ms Burridge who moved to a wooded area around Hobart after being a bush fire escapee ? Tassie has warm rain free summers, fires arent as intense but they are still dangerous. There are articles aboit tje super high bushfire risk around Hobart becase of urban sprawl into wooded areas and Hobart ? Why Hobart ?
Our place in Tassie is miles from any forest (zero fire risk), surrounded by rolling bucolic hills and up on a small hillock with zero flood risk. We discarded looking at more more then 50 houses in Tassie becase of the high bushfire risk, maybe as my partner was an ex RFS Bushfire Captain, she had a more critical eye but still ?
We might see Australians sorting themselves into different kinds of communities, ones that take climate change much more seriously, that build resilience in how they live in their homes, in their town planning, in their infrastructure, in their communities, and others where climate change is not taken seriously and which are therefore more severely buffeted by the extreme events that will increase in the coming decades.
“We may well see a kind of reshuffling of the Australian population where people who are more alert and more aware move towards climate-safe areas whereas others remain in places that are far more prone to the stress of climate change.
I:d quesrion the assumption they take it seriousl We're certinaly not seeing that reflected in peoples voting patterns. No one voting ALP/LNP is taking clinate change seriously, at most, for those voters it's an afterthought on a hot day.