As Australia’s sea levels rise, safe land is vanishing and costs are huge "Climate Council forecasts more than 267,000 coastal properties will be damaged by flooding by 2100, costing hundreds of billions of dollars." "Kompas said the costs – an estimated $274.3bn in property losses and $580.7bn in land use damages – were a conservative estimate and did not take into account the additional impacts of coastal erosion or significant ice sheet melt." "Kompas said that while reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global heating was of paramount importance, “we have to start planning and responding and adapting now. The first thing, of course, is not to build on flood plains, which is common still.” >> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/10/peters-farm-is-on-flood-country-as-australias-sea-levels-rise-safe-land-is-vanishing-and-costs-are-huge #FossilFuels #SeaLevelRise #CoastalFlooding #Climate #ClimateCost #Coast #loss #FoodSecurity #BellingeShire