Little told Checkpoint the weather had been "devastating", with some previously existing homes that had never been underwater getting submerged as well as new homes built after Cyclone Gabrielle.
We're pretty stupid, aren't we
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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Yet, when a council says "you can't build there it'll flood in a one-in-fifty year event" they get called obstructive, litigated, and then a developer builds there anyway and sells at a premium.
When I bought my home, I actually considered floods, climate change, and the imminent west Antarctic ice sheet collapse with the the resulting sea level rise.
We've known about climate change for a hundred years and are still acting all surprised that it is happening.
That is kinda depressing that we built houses on the same land that got flooded after Gabrielle.