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Already we have climate-change deniers suggesting that reducing carbon emissions would be denying prosperity to poor nations without electricity etc. etc.
While I hesitate to put all my faith in technology, in reality it is the only desirable solution: we will have no choice but to make use of technology that allows us to live in currently uninhabitable regions, and to grow food in currently unproductive areas. The challenge is going to be avoiding the mistake that has been made with technology so many times in the past: solving one problem just to create two or three more.
I think there is a medium-term need to reduce Australia's immigration intake, as long as we have potential food, water and infrastructure shortages. But longer term we may not have much choice but to accept refugees from ecological disasters of one sort or another. Trying to keep them out will be not only largely impossible, but if it damns millions to certain death, a moral outrage. Further, I wouldn't assume that just because we have to allow millions of refugees in that they will be here permanently: once here, Australia can lend all assistance possible towards finding and building new homes for these people, as close as possible to their place of origin. This may well mean radical solutions such as building floating cities where now-under-water islands used to be (this is an option I see The Netherlands already taking - by 2050 most of its residents may well be living in floating housing).