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Half Earth Socialism – A Planetary Crisis Planning Game
- kelseyfrog 4y agoJust happened to be playing this over the last few days and when https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702201 came up, I couldn't help but notice the correspondence between the discussion and the game. :)
- jimswhims 4y agoCool game, reminds me a bit of the research options in Stellaris. One thing I found missing was anything to do with reducing plastic waste specifically - there's an "Expand recycling" infrastructure option but I don't think that captures the specific challenges related to plastic. Given that only some 5% of plastic actually gets recycled and there are real hurdles to getting to meaningful levels of plastic recycling, I think a Policy option is needed to really enforce the search for alternatives. There seem to be a couple of options that are sort of the inverse of that, the "Consumerist Curriculum" and "Gadgets, Fast Fashion and Endless TV", but I don't see the effects of those as being particularly accurate, e.g. there's no apparent negative effect (to e.g. biodiversity, health) to choking up the planet with even more molded plastic than we already are.