I see the latest report on looming climate change has some pretty dire predictions – like a future of four times lengthier heatwaves, up to five times as many deaths due to extreme heat, a massive drag on productivity, 1.5 million Australians at risk of coastal flooding and a potential half trillion dollar hit to property values by 20250 – and that’s just the good news.
But wait, there’s more. Add to that bushfires becoming too uncontrollable to be fought and coastal areas abandoned and all those climate change sceptics are going to be looking pretty sheepish, if not soggy. It will be bad for those who live near a coast – any coast – or in a low-lying part of Australia.
Unfortunately those swamped by the rising waters, with their houses collapsing into the sea or rivers will include both those who heeded the climate message, but couldn’t afford to move and those who scoffed at it and decided it was all rubbish, and they were staying where they were with their expensive (increasingly close up) water views.
