Last summer punished Australian homes and livelihoods with clashing climate extremes. More than 5000 homes were damaged or destroyed in floods down the east coast, affecting over half a million people in Queensland alone. As residents look to pick up the pieces, the question everybody has to ask is: “What happens next time?”
Climate change is already driving more heat extremes and fire weather, and it’s expected that both drought and extreme rainfall will become worse — to say nothing of the downstream health impacts, like disease and air pollution.
Homes need to be more resilient to face this climate future.
