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AP: Here's what happened when experts at COP29 played a climate change board game
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-board-game-disasters-simulation-3d7e8a21305f448b40c836df010f6241Here’s what happened when experts at COP29 played a climate change board game
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 3:46 AM EST, November 22, 2024
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Activists and experts who are pushing world leaders to save an overheating planet learned it’s not so easy, even in a simulated world.
The Associated Press brought the board game Daybreak to the United Nations climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. Experts from three countries were asked to play the game, which involves players working together to curb climate change, caused by the release of greenhouse gas emissions when fuels like gasoline, natural gas and coal are burned. The goal of the game is to prevent the world from getting too hot or overrun by devastating extreme weather events.
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“I thought this game was supposed to give us hope. I’m not gaining any hope,” Seo said in a voice somewhere between curiosity and frustration.
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“I’m sad,” Schmidt said. “We very quickly got toast. That was only three rounds and my communities were toast. And we were already at 1.8. I think they need a little slower way, start at a lower base.”
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(In other words if we had started fighting the crisis sooner, the world might not have become “toast.”)
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 3:46 AM EST, November 22, 2024
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Activists and experts who are pushing world leaders to save an overheating planet learned it’s not so easy, even in a simulated world.
The Associated Press brought the board game Daybreak to the United Nations climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. Experts from three countries were asked to play the game, which involves players working together to curb climate change, caused by the release of greenhouse gas emissions when fuels like gasoline, natural gas and coal are burned. The goal of the game is to prevent the world from getting too hot or overrun by devastating extreme weather events.
…
“I thought this game was supposed to give us hope. I’m not gaining any hope,” Seo said in a voice somewhere between curiosity and frustration.
…
“I’m sad,” Schmidt said. “We very quickly got toast. That was only three rounds and my communities were toast. And we were already at 1.8. I think they need a little slower way, start at a lower base.”
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Sounds like a realistic game. Maybe, next time, we will act as soon as we recognize the threat, rather than waiting until it is too late to start.
