Parts of Northern Territory could become ‘uninhabitable’, report predicts

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Executive director of Environment Centre NT, Kirsty Howey, said climate change could make parts of the Northern Territory uninhabitable. Video via AAP

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00:00The future has never looked more bleak for the beautiful landscapes of northern Australia.

00:04We are a cultural and natural wonder, a global treasure for nature, but our places are looking

00:12like being unlivable within a few generations due to climate change. And the National Climate

00:17Risk Assessment laid that absolutely there in excruciating detail. We're looking at heat-related

00:23deaths in Darwin, increasing by 423%. 70% of Territorians living in high-risk or very high-risk

00:32areas susceptible to climate change, and lethal heat that is just simply not compatible with

00:37human life. We were very disappointed yesterday when the Albanese government announced their

00:43climate target. It needs to be more than 75% if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate

00:52change, and in particular, warming over 1.5 degrees, potentially up to 3 degrees. But

00:59instead, we don't have a target, we have a cop-out. And it's a cop-out in service of fossil

01:05fuel industry interests, capitulation to those interests, and it sacrifices communities of

01:13northern Australia in northern Australia. The First Nations places cared for for millennia, and

01:19really, livability here in the North.

01:21With a wonderful place, America, we have a new university, California. And there's a new

01:31community in the South, California. And the first place that you give up has a size of a

01:33new world model, which is a province that you can imagine. Thanks for having been a

01:37celebration, I think it's a certain place of hope, because some people are open up to be

01:38understood and it's a very different concept of the future. And there's some people are

01:39into the East Coast, the East Coast, the East Coast, the East Coast, the East Coast, the East Coast,

01:40the East Coast, the East Coast, where you might see some people at 1.5, next

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