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Another summer, another round of devastation
Last week’s extreme heatwave in south-east Australia broke temperature records and fuelled fires that raised Victoria’s total lost homes this summer to at least 400. Just weeks ago, flash flooding in the state forced hundreds of people to evacuate and swept cars out to sea.
Homes lost. Communities evacuated. Lives upended. It bears repeating that we have been here before. Climate change, driven by the greed of fossil fuel expansion, is making extreme weather more frequent and more destructive.
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