Nearly 100,000 remote West Australians at ‘very high risk’, says new climate report

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Some Western Australian communities are among the country's most vulnerable. The newly-released national climate risk report found 94,000 residents in the north are living in "very high-risk" areas due to their exposure to climate hazards.

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00:00Life above the 26th parallel is one of extremes since the Australian Climate Service is only getting worse.

00:09WA's Pilbara and Kimberley regions are set to cop the brunt of multiple climate hazards,

00:14including coral bleaching, extreme heat, biodiversity loss and vector-borne diseases.

00:19The North has the highest proportion of people living in very high-risk areas out of anywhere in the country.

00:25Injibandi elder Kevin Guinness can already see changes in the landscape.

00:29Kangaroos, something that my kangaroos had in the country and even the river's gone dry.

00:37Temperatures in Roburn peak above 50 degrees in summer and around 40 degrees in winter,

00:42but many elders can't afford air conditioning.

00:44Maybe get too much heat and maybe pass away and for the next lot of generation we lose that culture.

00:54In the Kimberley, remote community housing is already under pressure.

00:58Advocates warn conditions could become unbearable.

01:01I fear that it will be unlivable for many people in the community and I think the impacts on our Indigenous clients will be compounded

01:11because living our country will become an enormous challenge for people who are intricately connected to that place.

01:20The report found that consultation with the communities most at risk will be key,

01:25and especially those with a deep understanding of how their country is suffering.

01:29Open your eyes and see what you're doing to the country, you know.

01:34Luling moses a good thing that the face can't wait for this plain.

01:35In which countries I think I've never

01:39have seen the science.

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01:45and help heal people this.

01:46They have reallyócrat survived.

01:47They have ages 109 hours.

01:48And the public parents will need to take their social divinations.

01:51They are really someone else who understands better shape the country,

01:54because if you haveстиrained those areas,

01:56they have the other numbers.

01:57They have a good amount of things that probably haven't seen them yet.

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