In short:
Tasmania has a reputation as a refuge from the impacts of climate change, due to its sprawling wilderness areas and cool climate.
Couples like Anna Graham and Jack Taylor have moved to the state to escape the extreme heat and humidity of Queensland.
What’s next?
The National Climate Risk Assessment has forecast key climate hazards for the state, including worsening heatwaves, drought and flooding.
Didn’t they have unprecedented bushfires in places that are usually too damp to catch fire not to many years ago?
Yep
Yes as did SE.Qld in the “rainforest” that burned.
Dont be there is the key,
As the artcle says everywhere is effected, its just some places are worse then others.
Like the couple interviewd, he couldn’t work outdoors in SE.Qld anymore, it was already unlivable
I left far North Qld 15 years ago for the same reason.
I grew up in Tassie, currently living in Brisbane. It’s been a thought in the back of my mind for a while that I should head back there come the apocalypse. No-one gives a shit about Tassie in the global scene.
The mega rich do.
Personally my apocalypse plan is going down there to seal all but one of their airholes while they’re in there and putting a portapotty over the last one. Gotta find a contact for those heading to NZ
I was going to downvote this, but I just watched Friendlyjordie’s latest video about the current state of, um, the state, and holy shit you’re right.
yeah they’ve been pretty open about it for the past couple years.
I mean i get it, but its kinda like moving to the outer edge of the frying pan to escape the heat.
It may work for a while - but once shit hits the fan and we have food and water resource wars do they think they’ll magically be isolated from it? Especially since Tassie is part of a huge desert island nation with 28 million+ people to feed.
That makes no sense. Its like not living on a flood plain and others choose to
Sure everyone is suffering but at least you’re not wading through a metre of water from a storm surge you were told years aho was going to happen and you moved inland and up on a hill and otjers said “well, it’s like moving to the edhe of the pan to escape the heat…we’ll just stay here on the flood plain!”
You make it sound like its a instanteous thing.and its everywhere all at once.
I left Far NQ 15 years ago because it was unlivable then.
Feels like we’re discussing two different things here.
These people are moving to escape climate change of heat in Queensland. But the article discusses a wider trend of people moving to Tas to escape the longer term effects of climate change - which I am pointing out, is impossible.
Nah it’ll be fine, our premier is going to push past commonsense and planning advice to get Hobart an eye sore white elephant stadium. That’ll be a valuable asset to house all the displaced people moving down here.
Honestly if we can’t build houses to match the current trickle of people moving here how do they think we will go when it becomes a flood, plus the government takes decades to do any infrastructure work so even if we throw up some housing you better not want a road capable of handling the traffic flowing to it.
