Half a million NSW residents face high to extreme bushfire risk | MeganGorrey MattWadeSMH
continue to claim lives, destroy homes and blanket parts of the state in thick smoke, the analysis has revealed more than half a million residents across the state live in local council areas facing high or extreme risk of bushfires this summer.
"We're still getting more and more people living in these high-risk bushfire areas - that's the real conundrum," Mr Rawnsley said. A statement by the Insurance Council in October said claims that parts of Australia will "inevitably" become uninsurable or unaffordable due to climate change “fail to recognise that mitigation and adaptation can prevent some of the worst impacts of extreme weather.”
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