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Brooke fast forwards to the year 2100 to discover what adventuring in some of your favourite Aussie locations might look like if we don\u2019t start taking serious and immediate climate action, now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s been a while since we’ve had a normal summer holiday, hey? Whether dampened by endless rain or scorched by flames, coordinating your retreat into nature is getting tricky. Well, soon it might not just be the day-to-day weather that\u2019s raining on your parade, but the growing climate change impacts too. Here\u2019s what could be in store for Australia in 2100.<\/span><\/p>\n

Skiing in The High Country<\/h2>\n

Remember back in the day when people would laugh when you said you went skiing<\/a> in Australia? And then you\u2019d show them the epic slopes of High Country Victoria<\/a> or Kosciuszko National Park just to see the stunned but impressed look in their eyes?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, no one’s laughing now. And all those moments of shock are for the entirely wrong reasons. Almost all of the ski resorts in Australia have closed.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, they shrunk their opening times \u2013 what used to be an average <\/span>112-day ski season shrunk to 30 days by 2050<\/span><\/a>. Then, they closed completely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The only resort open now is Thredbo in NSW, which at 2,037m was always Australia\u2019s highest. You know the chances of snow are pretty much slim-to-none, but you decide to head there and hope for the best. Maybe you\u2019ll be lucky.<\/span><\/p>\n

The winding Alpine Road is the first sign that things are not A-OK. Snow chains are no longer mandatory. You blast your car\u2019s air-con as if it\u2019s the height of summer. The road is empty of snow. And empty of people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arriving at Thredbo, it soon becomes clear why. There\u2019s no snow here \u2014 and there hasn’t been for years, according to the worn-out, ex-ski bum manning the desk at your hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to <\/span>attempt<\/span><\/i> to ski, he says, there\u2019s a teeny, tiny chance of man-made snow at the top of the one remaining slope. But even snow cannons need it to be below freezing to make snow, and the <\/span>chances of that halved way back in the 2040s<\/span><\/a>. Mountain biking it is then.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Coastal Walk in Sydney<\/h2>\n

It was 2020 when the prediction was made. <\/span>40% of Australia\u2019s beaches would be lost to rising sea levels<\/span><\/a>. Of course, no one listened. And I guess they were right not to because we didn’t lose 40% \u2014 we lost 60%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s over 20,000km of iconic Australian coastline, gone. There\u2019s no such thing as a coastal walk in Sydney<\/a> now \u2014 the city was one of the hardest-hit areas. Its once famous beaches were washed away<\/a> and replaced with wild oceans that smash against deserted storefronts and long-abandoned homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, when your family comes to visit, you trade them the coastal walk of yesteryear for a trip to Sydney Museum instead. There\u2019s an exhibition called \u2018Bygone Bondi\u2019, depicting what life used to be like at Australia\u2019s most famous beach.<\/span><\/p>\n

The closest you get to a coastal walk is a virtual reality walkthrough of the famous Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk<\/a>. The real thing has been underwater for decades now. And those multi-million-dollar Bondi Beach houses everyone was fighting over? Well, let\u2019s just say they wished they\u2019d bought inland. Who was it that said climate change impacts weren’t real, again?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this really what\u2019s in store for us?
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The Paris Climate Agreement states \u2018to avoid dangerous climate change we need to limit global warming to well below 2\u00b0C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5\u00b0C\u2019. If we don\u2019t, the impacts could be devastating. <\/span>And a world that looks very, very different when it comes to adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it’s not just about the risk of long-forgotten flip flops and deserted beach towels. <\/span>Scientists at Climate Central estimate that 275 million people worldwide<\/a> live in areas that will be flooded if we reach 3 degrees of warming. That\u2019s ten times the entire Australian population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a <\/span>sneak peek into the future<\/span><\/a>, if we don\u2019t take some seriously drastic action soon:<\/span><\/p>\n