Video games can make climate change real for players – here's how
The US$200bil gaming industry is increasingly featuring the climate crisis, but it’s just as likely to lead to harms as gains.
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The US$200bil gaming industry is increasingly featuring the climate crisis, but it’s just as likely to lead to harms as gains.
It's quite alien in a way, because you can't really comprehend that experience," he said over a video call. At the 2017 United Nations climate summit in Germany, COP23, and at COP24 in Poland the next year, Homatash presented a game called Earth Remembers to delegates, in which players fight the effects of global warming based on an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change model showing the temperature rise.
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