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Post by starkiller on May 10, 2021 16:28:29 GMT
Found this while surfing around, it’s a cool little eco game made by climate experts, about the future of our ecosystem and the consequences of our actions. survivethecentury.netIt’s cool to save earth and ushering a better future but I admit also finding the worst case scenario is fun even only for reading the newspaper headlines. |
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Post by Pawel on May 10, 2021 16:41:26 GMT
Pretty fun game, even if some of its predictions aren't especially fun!  |
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Post by starkiller on May 10, 2021 20:15:46 GMT
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Post by Pawel on May 10, 2021 20:26:28 GMT
Oh, very cool mate! I mean, absolutely terrifying, but the tool is awesome. Sliders along are fun to play with, but there's plenty of concise info when clicking deeper into each of those factors.
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Post by neil on May 11, 2021 9:27:40 GMT
Found this while surfing around, it’s a cool little eco game made by climate experts, about the future of our ecosystem and the consequences of our actions. survivethecentury.netIt’s cool to save earth and ushering a better future but I admit also finding the worst case scenario is fun even only for reading the newspaper headlines. It's a neat little game. A bit on the polemic side, though. If you do the things that need to be done, things don't turn out too bad. If you do the things that are likely to happen, everything falls apart. I suppose it does show that we can't go on doing the things we are doing now, and expect the next century to be anything like pleasant. |
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Post by starkiller on May 11, 2021 12:05:26 GMT
What i found more implausible is the stateless, small community future. While a community focused development initiatives are laudable and an important step in the right direction, I don’t think it’s the magic solution that the game presented, small communities suffers from the big personalities of petty dictators (or smaller groups) who want to impose themselves over others, the me first problem, and local issues focus which could derail every possible progress, I think that is connected to the excessive trust the authors place on personal responsibility, I may be cynical but I think too many people in the real world don’t want to suffer the consequences of their actions, for an example look at the rioters who stormed the capitol in the USA, their main line of defense is the president trump told me to do it (or the internet or the media etc…) as far as I know no one took responsibility for what they had done. IMHO the only solutions to the problems presented by climate change are technologies which could permit the same level of comfort we enjoy today in the developed world without harming the environment, again I may be cynical but I have seen the fierce resistance some people in my community have put up to simple changes of lifestyle like mandatory recycling and separate waste collection, like those actions somewhat offended them on some profound personal level. Anyone found something else they didn’t like/disagreed?
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Post by neil on May 12, 2021 8:28:35 GMT
What i found more implausible is the stateless, small community future. While a community focused development initiatives are laudable and an important step in the right direction, I don’t think it’s the magic solution that the game presented, small communities suffers from the big personalities of petty dictators (or smaller groups) who want to impose themselves over others, the me first problem, and local issues focus which could derail every possible progress, I think that is connected to the excessive trust the authors place on personal responsibility, Swinging this back to Poseidon, is this one of the changes brought on by the Blight? The communities that came together, practised parsimony and collective welfare, are the ones that thrived? If so, that's a change from the individualistic nature of current US and UK society. Could that imply that towns and other communities are stronger on Poseidon than we might think? Hospitality and sharing within a group is more common, and loyalty and participation expected? Will Poseidon also be a place for the loners, who reject all such forms of community and want to live alone in the wilds? Are we back to the "Mountain Men" of US lore? |
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